'Mass killing' in other cities may be even worse than in Bucha warns Ukraine's President Zelensky - full speech in English

The "mass killing of civilians" could be even worse in other cities than it is in the city of Bucha, Ukraine's President Zelensky has warned.

In a video speech released in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Mr Zelensky said: "At present, there is information about more than 300 people killed and tortured in Bucha alone. It is likely that the list of victims will be much larger when the whole city is checked. And this is only one city.

"There is already information that the number of victims of the occupiers may be even higher in Borodyanka and some other liberated cities. In many villages of the liberated districts of the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the occupiers did things that the locals had not seen even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago."

The international media has reported seeing bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture scattered across the city of Bucha, which lies on the outskirts of Kyiv, after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area.

Russia has denied being responsible, with Foreign Minister Serge Lavrov claiming it is a “fake attack” and that the dead bodies were “staged”. However, in his most recent speech, Mr Zelensky said: "There is ample evidence that it is Russian troops who destroy peaceful cities, abduct, torture, kill civilians."

President Zelensky's address to Romania in English, in full

"Ukrainians! All our defenders! Today has been a really difficult day. Emotional. I’ve visited our cities in the Kyiv region, which we liberated from the occupiers. Stoyanka, Irpin, Bucha.

"Of course, now this area does not look like yesterday. The bodies of killed people, killed Ukrainians have already been taken from most streets. But in the yards, in the houses, the