Ukrainians had ‘tongues cut out by brutal Russian troops,’ Zelenskyy claims

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Russian troops "cut out the tongues of Ukrainian civilians", Ukraine's President Zelenskyy has claimed.

The heroic 44-year-old leader went into graphic detail to the UN Security Council about alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops.

He claims soldiers were had slit the throats of civilians, raped and killed women in front of their kids, and cut out tongues "because they didn’t hear what they wanted to.”

Speaking of the atrocities being reported from the Kyiv Oblast town of Bucha – which was recently liberated from Russian forces, he said: "Just for their pleasure. They cut off limbs cut their throat slashed their throats.

"Women were raped and killed in front of their children."

According to ABC News, he went on: "Their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressors did not want to hear from them."

Ukraine's heroic president also compared Russia to ISIS in an address to the UN Security Council today.

Mr Zelesnkyy said he had visited the "recently liberated" city of Bucha and he said there was "not a single crime that they (Russian forces) would not commit".

He claims the Russian troops had killed entire families and tried to burn their bodies, and that people were shot in the street or thrown into wells.

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He added: "This is no different from other terrorists such as Daesh who occupy some territories, and here it is done by a member of the United Nations Security Council.

"They support hatred at the level of the state and seek to export it to other countries through their system of propaganda and political corruption."

The news comes after reports emerged of a “torture room" left behind in a Ukrainian town won back from retreating Russian soldiers, state officials claim.

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Graphic images of dead bodies discarded among rubble have been shared by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office who claim the photos were taken in a chilling building in Bucha.

The Office alleges the corpses belonged to citizens who had been tortured and killed by Russian soldiers when Moscow had a fleeting grip on the city.

Ukrainian officials say 410 civilians have been killed in the towns surrounding Kyiv so far with 300 partially buried or not buried at all in Bucha alone.

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