Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an impassioned speech to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, urging representatives not to let Russia continue to go unpunished for what he described as 'the most terrible war crimes' since World War II.
Zelenskyy warned that if Russia goes unpunished, countries will be reliant on their own arms for security, rather than international law and institutions.
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to close the U.N.? Do you think the time for international order is gone?" he asked. He also urged the council to remove Russia"as an aggressor and a source of war" so that it cannot block responses to its own acts of violence. In even more graphic detail, he described them cutting off limbs, slashing throats, raping and killing women in front of their children and pulling out peoples' tongues"only because the aggressor did not hear what they wanted to hear from them."
Russia has denied these reports and accused Ukraine of staging the killings in Bucha. Zelenskyy said such denials are part of a classic tactic to say that there are different narratives and that it's impossible to establish which one is the truth.
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