Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has shown the UN Security Council a graphic video of dead women, children and men, including burnt bodies and victims in mass graves, representing shocking images of atrocities committed during the Russian invasion.
The 90-second video, which shows partially uncovered dead in shallow graves, several bodies in the yard and dead people with their hands tied behind their backs and dragged to a wall, was broadcast minutes after Vladimir Zelensky addressed the 15-member Security Council. UN via video link.
In his address, he called for “responsibility for Russian crimes” committed during Moscow’s invasion of his country. “People were killed in their apartments, houses … civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road, just for their pleasure” (of Russian soldiers), Zelensky said in a video message also viewed by the Russian representative to the Security Council.
He said Russia should face an international tribunal similar to the one in Nuremberg after World War II. The Bucha massacre is just one example of what Russia has been doing for the past 41 days, Zelensky said.
Russia has rejected Zelensky’s allegations
Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, has denied to the Security Council allegations that Russian troops committed atrocities in Ukraine, saying there was no evidence from witnesses.
Addressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke to the Video Communications Council minutes earlier, Nebenzia said Moscow was leaving “unfounded accusations against the Russian military to your conscience that have not been confirmed by any eyewitness,” AFP reported.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations said 600,000 people had voluntarily evacuated to Russia during the conflict in Ukraine, dismissing Kyiv’s claims of mass deportations: “Since the start of the special military operation, more than 600,000 people have been evacuated to Russia. , including more than 119,000 children, “Vasily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council.
According to him, there are big discrepancies in the version of Kyiv and the West about the events in Bucha. “Hundreds of people are ready to testify about the crimes of neo-Nazis in Ukraine,” Nebenzia said.
Ukraine intended to solve the problem in Donbass with military means in March, TASS quoted him as saying, BGNES reported. According to him, the shells exploded, “because, unfortunately, there was no other way to establish peace in Donbass, after you and your subordinates flatly refused to abide by the Minsk agreements, preparing to resolve the Donbass problem by military means in March. .
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