Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.N. Security Council for the first time Tuesday at a meeting that is certain to focus on what ...

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Ukraine's president planned to address the U.N.'s most powerful body after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian ...

Zelenskyy said the civilian death toll may actually be much higher in cities that have been liberated from Russian control. Zelenskyy said a meeting could happen if Russia were to “bear all the punishments” of committing genocide. Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces and that a “torture chamber” was discovered in the town called Bucha.

Tuesday's Security Council session is to consider Ukrainian allegations of civilian murders by Russian troops in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, after the discovery ...

Let the world see what Russia has done", he said. It was in Ukraine's interests to have "thousands of journalists there. "And this is only one town, one of many Ukrainian communities which the Russian forces managed to capture," he said.

Western nations expelled dozens more of Moscow's diplomats and proposed further sanctions as they expressed their disgust at what they say are war crimes.

It did not identify the nationality of the police, but Manhush has been under Russian control for weeks. But it was not immediately clear whether Russia has agreed to halt the fighting along the corridors. Some are calling for a boycott of Russian oil and gas imports, while Germany and others fear that such a move could plunge the continent into a severe economic crisis. Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas have been fighting Ukrainian troops for the last eight years. Their provision of other weapons and equipment has been credited with helping Ukraine mount a stiffer than expected resistance to Russia’s overwhelming firepower. High-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies, meanwhile, showed that many of the bodies had been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in the town. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the expulsions a “short-sighted” measure that would complicate communication during the crisis and warned they would be met with “reciprocal steps.” Russia has rejected allegations of atrocities, with officials repeatedly saying without evidence that the scenes were faked. In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week. He says his forces desperately need more powerful weaponry, some of which the West has been reluctant to give. BUCHA: Ukraine's president planned to address the U. N.'s most powerful body on Tuesday after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently left. Russia's veto guarantees the body will take no action, and it was unclear whether its representatives would even remain in the chamber for the video address.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his address to UN Security Council accused Russia of the worst atrocities since World War II and said they are no ...

Zelenskyy showed the U. N.'s most powerful body brief video footage of bloody corpses that ended with the words “Stop Russian Aggression.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the U. N. Security Council that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes. The images, particularly from the town of Bucha, have stirred global revulsion and led to demands for tougher sanctions and war crime prosecutions against Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed the UN a brief video footage of bloody corpses in Ukraine and accused the Russian military of war crimes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the UN Security Council that the Russian military must be ...

The Ukrainian president described the horrific scenes he saw in Bucha, calling it just one example of the destruction Russia has wrought.

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Ukraine's president has used an address to the United Nations Security Council to liken Russia's assault on his country to Nazi war crimes, ...

"What we've seen in Bucha is not the random act of a rogue unit. "What we've seen in Bucha is not the random act of a rogue unit. AFP reporters who briefly visited the Borodyanka area saw no bodies in the streets, but locals reported many deaths. In an emergency, call 000. People "were killed in their apartments, houses... "I buried six people," another resident, Volodymyr Nahornyi, said. are not confirmed by any eyewitnesses." "If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately." People "were killed in their apartments, houses... In an emergency, call 000. "I buried six people," another resident, Volodymyr Nahornyi, said. "If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately."

Key points: Mr Zelenskyy accused invading Russian troops of committing "the most terrible war crimes" since World War II; Moscow denies targeting civilians, ...

"If there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether. Their tongues were pulled out, only because their aggressor did not hear what they wanted to hear from them," the Ukrainian President said, recounting what he described as the worst atrocities since World War II. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the greatest challenges ever to the international order "because of its nature, intensity and consequences". He also told the Security Council there was "not a single crime" that Russian troops had not committed in Bucha. Women were raped and killed in front of their children. In a passionate address to the UN Security Council on Tuesday via video, Mr Zelenskyy described, in detail, grim scenes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, saying Moscow wanted to turn Ukraine into "silent slaves".