The speech, Zelensky's first to the body since Russia's invasion, comes after he made an emotional trip to Bucha, where dozens of bodies were discovered after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
KYIV - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the UN Security Council on Tuesday, where he is expected to demand tough new sanctions on Moscow over killings in the town of Bucha that he has called "war crimes" and "genocide".
On Monday, wearing body armour and visibly distressed, Zelensky spent half an hour in Bucha, where he blamed Russian troops for the killings.Later in his nightly address, he said "the sanctions response to Russia's massacre of civilians must finally be powerful". US President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House that there should be "a war crimes trial", adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin "is a war criminal".
On Monday, the bodies of five men were found in a children's sanatorium basement in Bucha. The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said they were unarmed civilians, who had been bound, beaten and killed by Russian troops. AFP reporters who briefly visited the area saw no bodies in the streets, but locals reported many deaths.
The Pentagon estimates Russia has withdrawn about two-thirds of the troops it had around Kyiv and will redeploy them to the east and south, with the White House warning the war's "next phase could be measured in months or longer". A 2008 UN convention bans the production and use of the weapons, but it has not been signed by Russia or Ukraine.
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