INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged the United Nations to "act immediately" or "dissolve yourself altogether" during a
cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war."Russia, as one of the five permanent members of the Council, has a veto, which
it has repeatedly wielded to block resolutions and negotiations on the global stage.That means it cannot be expelled from the body, as it
then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether," Zelensky continued."Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to close the UN?..
If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately."Bearded and dressed in his now trademark military green T-shirt, Zelensky, speaking
remotely from Kyiv, gave a chilling rendition of the atrocities he said were carried out by Russian troops against civilians in Bucha, a
town outside the Ukrainian capital.Bucha had been occupied by Russian troops, but when they withdrew recently, Ukrainian authorities and
independent international journalists including AFP found bodies of people in civilian clothing, some with their hands tied behind their
were killed in their apartments, houses, blowing up grenades, civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of
the road, just for their pleasure
slashed their throats," he said."Women were raped and killed in front of their children, their tongues were pulled out only because the
and here it is done by a member of the United Nations Security Council," he said, using another acronym for the Islamic State
his remarks directly to Zelensky, Vassily Nebenzia said Moscow places "on your conscience the ungrounded accusations against the Russian
military, which are not confirmed by any eye witnesses."At least one witness has told AFP of watching Russian soldiers shoot a man in cold
only saw what they showed you
You couldn't ignore the flagrant inconsistencies in the version of events which are being promoted by Ukrainian and Western media."He also
24, sparking outrage across the world and displacing millions of Ukrainians.Islamic State is a terrorist group banned in Russia.
