German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock paid a surprise visit to Ukraine's martyred town of Bucha on Tuesday, a day after Russian missiles pounded the strategic port city of Odesa. Earlier, diplomats said the UN Security Council would hold a crisis meeting on Thursday to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is touring Ukraine's martyred town of Bucha, north of Kyiv, as part of a surprise visit to Ukraine.

Russian troops are accused of massacring hundreds of civilians as they retreated from Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs in late March.

Images of corpses lying in the streets, some with their hands bound, shocked the world and prompted calls for war crimes charges to be brought against Russia.

France 24