During a heated address to the Security Council today, Volodymyr Zelensky linked Russia to ISIS for their ‘war crimes’ in Bucha, slamming the UN organisation for failing to safeguard Ukraine.
In his fiery statement, the president said that crimes had been committed throughout the nation, including women being raped and slaughtered in front of their relatives, as well as individuals being abducted and taken to Russia and converted into’slaves.’
He chastised the Security Council for failing to offer any security, urging Russia’s removal from the global organisation as well as change to prevent future unlawful incursions.
‘So where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee?’ questioned Ukraine’s president. It isn’t there. Despite the existence of a Security Council, where is the peace?
‘It is evident that the world’s primary institution, which must assure the compulsion of any aggressor to peace, simply cannot function successfully.’
He informed the council of citizens being purposely driven over by tanks, people’s tongues being cut out, and gang rapes being perpetrated by invading Kremlin forces in ‘the most horrendous war crimes’ since WWII, while showing a distressing film of burning corpses and bodies put in wells.
People were ‘killed in their flats and houses… people were crushed by tanks while sitting in their automobiles in the middle of the road, simply for their enjoyment,’ Zelensky said the Council, which included Moscow’s representative.
The wartime commander expressed concern that Russians would transform his people into “silent slaves,” claiming that “hundreds of thousands” of Ukrainians had been transported to Russia.
He also demanded UN change since the present global security system has failed, and he asked international leaders to act ‘quickly’ against Russia.
Russia’s ambassador denounced the assertions as ‘falsehoods,’ repeating unsubstantiated Kremlin claims about Nazis governing Ukraine and claiming that reports of crimes had not been proven.
Moscow, according to Vassily Nebenzia, “places on your conscience the bogus claims against the Russian military, which are not corroborated by any eye witnesses.”
He denied claims of war crimes, noting that there are “flagrant contradictions in facts depicted by Ukrainian and Western media.”
‘The bodies in no way match those that might have been lying on the street for three or four days,’ the ambassador said, refuting accusations that corpses discovered in Bucha were not there when Russia departed.
But, over two weeks before the Russian withdrawal, satellite photographs reveal dead on the street.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “one of the biggest threats to world order in history.”
The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council in New York that there is accumulating evidence of war crimes, rapes, and sexual assaults committed by Putin’s army.
‘I will never forget the horrible pictures of the citizens in Bucha,’ he added, referring to the heaps of human dead discovered near Kyiv this weekend.
‘The conflict in Ukraine must end now,’ Guterres told the Security Council, calling it ‘one of the biggest threats to the world order ever.’
‘We need meaningful peace discussions based on the ideals of the UN Charter,’ he added.
According to Guterres, the conflict is putting even greater strain on the poor world, with more than 1.2 billion people particularly exposed to rising food, energy, and fertiliser prices.
‘We are already witnessing certain nations transition from vulnerability to crisis, as well as indicators of major societal upheaval,’ he continued.
Rosemary DiCarlo, UN Undersecretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, warned the audience of “credible” reports that Russia deployed indiscriminate cluster bombs two dozen times in inhabited areas of Ukraine.
‘The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has received credible claims that Russian troops have used cluster bombs in civilian areas at least 24 times,’ she added.
