Mothers raped in front of children in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims in UN address | ITV News

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian troops of raping Ukrainian mothers in front of their children as he urged the United Nations to convict Vladimir Putin of war crimes.

The leader told UN representatives of what he saw when visiting the "recently liberated" city of Bucha, where there was "not a single crime that they (Russian forces) would not commit".

He said Russian invaders had "killed entire families, adults and children and they tried to burn the bodies" and accused them of "wide-scale looting".

"Civilians were crushed by tanks... they cut off their limbs, slashed their throats," he said, "women were raped and killed in front of their children".

"Their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did not like what they heard," he added.

And Mr Zelenskyy suggested atrocities carried out in Bucha were just the tip of the iceberg.

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