A mass grave site containing 900 bodies has been discovered in Kyiv Oblast, says Ukraine's president.
Volodymyr Zelensky informed Polish journalists of the latest horror discovered by his nation’s troops in the wake of Russian invaders in the area.
Pravda reported the president saying: "International institutions sometimes really do act quite slowly and sometimes...people cannot be held accountable due to the lack of evidence, despite the existence of eyewitnesses, despite everyone having seen it [the crime] take place.
"But they [Russian troops] also cover the evidence [of their crimes], take the mobile crematoria which Russians brought here and which they are using to burn people, to burn their dead bodies.
"Despite everything, they are searching and their searches are yielding results. Imagine, so many civilians were killed that despite the fact that they [the Russians] burned [some of the corpses in mobile crematoria], another mass grave has been found in Kyiv Region with the bodies of 900 civilians, 900 people!"
The gruesome find came a day after Russia upped its attacks on Ukraine Thursday, including a missile which struck a residential high-rise and another building and wounded 10 people, including at least one who lost a leg, in the nation's capital.
The bombardment came barely an hour after Zelensky held a news conference with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who toured some of the destruction in and around Kyiv and condemned the attacks on civilians.
Explosions were reported across the under siege country, including Polonne in the west and Chernihiv near the border with Belarus.
There was also intensive Russian fire in the Donbas region in the east which the Kremlin claims is now its main objective since failing to take Kyiv.
Zelensky said of the attacks: "This says a lot about Russia's true attitude towards global institutions, about attempts of Russian authorities to humiliate the UN and everything that the organisation represent.
"Therefore, it requires corresponding powerful reaction."
Two weeks ago Ukrainian authorities found another mass grave site of 900 civilians outside the capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian troops occupying parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in the south of terrorising civilians and hunting for anyone who served in Ukraine’s military or government.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at the time: "The number and the scale of missile attacks on objects in Kyiv will be ramped up in response to the Kyiv nationalist regime committing any terrorist attacks or diversions on the Russian territory."
Earlier today the UK defence secretary warned Vladimir Putin could declare a new world war in the coming days.
Ben Wallace said the Russian tyrant may start a “mass” mobilisation and use May Day to announce a war on the world’s “Nazis”.
Putin started the Russian invasion of its neighbour on February 24 saying that it was a special operation to rid Ukraine of Nazis.
Since then Ukrainian cities have been pummelled by shelling in a battle which government minister Liz Truss has said could go on for 10 years.
And in the face of the West providing money and armaments to Ukraine, Russia has referred to its nuclear capabilities in threats to not get involved. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the “danger is serious” of a nuclear war.
