Zelensky Calls For Russia To Be Removed From UN Security Council

NEW YORK – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the United Nations to remove Russia from the permanent seat of the Security Council. This comes after evidence circulated about executions and other atrocities committed by Russian troops in his country.

Zelensky said Russia should be removed from its place as a permanent member of the Security Council, over which it holds veto power, arguing that it was time to reform the global peacekeeping body.

“We are dealing with a country that turns a veto (in) the UN Security Council into a right to die,” Zelensky said in a virtual speech.

“This undermines the entire global security architecture and allows them to go unpunished.”

“The main thing is today, it’s time to change the system, the United Nations,” he told the Security Council as quoted from The Hill, Wednesday (6/4/2022).

Photographs of civilians allegedly killed by Russian forces in the Kiev suburb of Bucha — including at least one person with his hands tied behind his back — show that Russian forces have shot and killed civilians indiscriminately during their occupation of the city.

Satellite images show that bodies were left on the streets for weeks, contradicting Russia’s claim that the photos were fabricated.

The Ukrainian president’s speech was accompanied by a graphic video showing gruesome images of some of the massacres found in Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation.

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