President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, accused Russian troops of killing and raping civilians during the war in Ukraine.
Among other things, he said that the UN was unable to ensure security in the world, since Russia uses its right of veto in the Security Council as a weapon..
He suggested convening an international conference in Kyiv to determine how to further maintain world peace..
And a few more quotes from the speech of Vladimir Zelensky in the UN Security Council. After the speech of the President of Ukraine, a video was shown at the meeting with footage of the dead in Bucha and other small towns near Kiev, from where Russian troops left.
It is difficult to find such a war crime that the occupiers would not have committed there.. The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed everyone who served our state. They shot women outside the doors of houses when they approached and simply called for someone who was alive here.. They killed entire families - adults and children. And tried to burn their bodies.
Zelensky said that the inhabitants of Ukraine every day honor the memory of the dead civilians. " Who were shot just on the streets. Who were thrown into wells to die there in misery. Who were killed in apartments, in houses, undermining grenades. They crushed with tanks - just in civilian cars - in the middle of the road. For pleasure. Who had their limbs cut off and their throats slit. Who were raped and killed in front of their own children. Their tongues were cut off only because they did not hear from them what they wanted to hear"
The President of Ukraine asked how what is happening differs from what the Islamic State, a terrorist organization banned in Russia and many other countries of the world, did. "
He accused Russia of destroying borders, deliberately inciting wars and national hatred.. And he said that Moscow "
According to Zelensky, the UN failed to fulfill its main function.
Where is the security that the Security Council should guarantee? It does not exist, although the Security Council exists, as if nothing had happened. So where is the peace that the United Nations was created to guarantee?. It is obvious that the key peace institution, which should ensure that any aggressors are forced into peace, simply cannot work effectively.. Now the world has seen what the Russian military did in Bucha while they kept our city in occupation. But the world has yet to see what they have done in other occupied cities, in other occupied areas of our country..
The geography may be different, but the cruelty is the same. Crimes are the same. And responsibility must be inevitable.
Zelensky: UN Security Council needs to be reformed. " Or, if your current format has no alternative and there is simply no way out, then only self-dissolution will continue,"
After him, Russian representative Vasily Nebenzya spoke in the Security Council, who denied Zelensky's accusations and predictably accused the Ukrainian military and "