Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky spoke Tuesday at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. which focuses on the corpses found in Bucha.
During his speech, Zelensky urged the UN to act “immediately” against the “war crimes” committed, according to him, by Russia in his country.
The president also called for Russia to be excluded from the UN Security Council and for the veto system to be reformed. Zelensky also called on the UN to hold Russia “responsible” for “war crimes” in Ukraine and called for those responsible for the invasion to be brought to justice.
The Russian military searched for and killed all those who worked for our country
In that sense, Zelensky described these events as the “worst war crimes” since World War II.
“The Russian military searched for and killed all those who worked for our country. They killed women who cared for people in front of their houses, they killed families, adults, children and tried to burn the corpses,” Zelensky said.
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Before Zelensky’s statement, the UN received “credible” testimonies that Russia had used cluster bombs in populated areas of Ukraine at least 24 timesa senior official of the organization told the Security Council on Tuesday.
“Allegations that Ukrainian forces used these weapons are also being investigated,” added Rosemary DiCarlo. It is worth mentioning that this type of weaponry is prohibited.
Before the Security Council meeting
Tuesday’s meeting was already scheduled before the announcement of Zelensky’s appearance, and will include the participation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The central theme of the summit is the discovery this weekend of bodies in civilian clothes scattered through the streets of Bucha, a town on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, kyiv.
On Monday, Zelensky, wearing a camouflaged coat and bulletproof vest, spent half an hour in the suburbs of Bucha. The Ukrainian president blamed Russian troops for the killings.
“These are war crimes and will be recognized by the world as genocide,” he said.
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For its part, Moscow has denied any responsibility and suggested that the images of the bodies were “fake”.
“The British Presidency of the Council will ensure that the truth about Russia’s war crimes is heard. We will expose (Vladimir) Putin’s war for what it really is,” the British mission to the UN said on its official Twitter account. .
War crimes in Ukraine
And it is that in the kyiv region alone, including the country’s capital, Ukrainian security agents have already documented and recorded more than 1,200 acts considered war crimes attributed to the Russians, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denys said on Tuesday. Monastyrsky.
“In the kyiv region alone we have registered more than 1,200 cases of war crimes. It is about looting and crimes committed by orcs (as some Ukrainians call the Russians) on our territories“, denounced the minister on local television channels, publishes the Ukrinform agency.
Referring to the alleged crimes of the Russian troops recorded in the territories already liberated by the Ukrainian army, Monastyrsky pointed out that “the investigators of the National Police, the Security Service and the Prosecutor’s Office are already working together to establish, record evidence and identify who could have committed these crimes.”
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“All those (Russians) who have been taken prisoner are identified and made available to the Ukrainian Security Service and military authorities for law enforcement,” he stressed.
Once this procedure is finished, “they will be transferred to the Ministry of Justice,” he specified, “where they will be taken to court and may be questioned.”
As previously announced by the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine is holding 600 Russian prisoners captured since the invasion of her country by the Russian Army began on February 24.
“When we talk about the total number (of military prisoners), there are about 600 now. We have to build a special camp in accordance with international law” to house them, Vereshchuk said during the broadcast of the so-called telethon, a television program that they jointly broadcast. the local stations.
In the kyiv region alone we have recorded more than 1,200 cases of war crimes
Suspicions that the Russian Army has committed war crimes in Ukraine have increased after the discovery of hundreds of civilian bodiessome of them handcuffed and previously tortured, in cities like Bucha, after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
The Government of kyiv, several NGOs and international institutions have requested that an investigation be carried out to document these possible war crimes that Russia has denied and attributes to “a set-up”.
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* EFE and AFP
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