Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the United Nations Security council on Tuesday after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently withdrew from.
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"Russia is committing the most serious crimes since World War II. There is no crime that Russia hasn't committed. It wants us to become slaves," Zelenskyy said, calling on the West to increase sanctions on Moscow, highlighting the need to stop European dependence on Russian gas.
"Moscow must get away with this without punishment," the Ukrainian president said.
The dead were discovered after Russian forces pulled out of a town on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, and have sparked global outrage and vehement denials from the Russian government that it was responsible.
Videos and photos of streets in the town of Bucha strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some with their hands tied behind their back, have led to global revulsion, calls for tougher sanctions on Russia and its suspension from the UN's premiere human rights body, the Human Rights Council.
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