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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to speak Tuesday to UN Security Council diplomats outraged by growing evidence that Russian forces deliberately killed civilians, many of them shot in yards, streets and homes, and their bodies left in the open.
In an address to the Security Council, the Ukrainian president lists the torture, rapes and killings of civilians in what he describes as the worst atrocities since World War II.
Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine's southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow's soldiers deliberately killed civilians.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russian troops of the worst atrocities since World War II.
Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, while President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.