Wolodymyr Selenskyj says UN: act now to stop Russia or dissolve yourself

WOLODYMYR SELENSKYJ said that the United Nations should be dissolved if they cannot wring Russia, and he demanded processes in the Nuremberg style for the Kremlin leaders.

In a passionate virtual speech to the UN Security Council, the Ukrainian President said that Russia's veto against resolutions gave him a "right to kill".

He said Russia should be thrown out of the Security Council or the UN simply dissolved itself because the entire structure of global security that was created in 1945 failed.

Russia was allowed to "commit the most terrible war crimes that we have seen since World War II," said Zelensky, "sowing death" and behaving like a "colonizer from the old days".

he added: "It is clear that the most important institution in the world, which is supposed to force every attacker to accept peace, simply cannot work effectively."

Mr. Selenskyj said that the actions of the Russian troops were "no different from other terrorists" like the Islamic State.

But he said: "Here it is done by a member of the United Nations Security Council.

"Ladies and gentlemen are ready to close the UN? Do you think the time of international law is over? If your answer is no, you have to act immediately. The system must be reformed immediately so that the veto is not the right to kill."

Mr. Zelensky spoke on a meeting of the United Nations in New York, day after the discovery of hundreds of murdered civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

As one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, known as P5,

Russia has a veto against all UN resolutions. She recently blocked one that demanded an immediate end of the invasion in Ukraine.

The UN can send peace troops to war zones and support military actions of its members if the P5 agree. However, the international body is shaken by the growing rivalry between the West, Russia and China.

The divisions were still obvious on Tuesday when Great Britain and the United States condemned the atrocities of Russia, while China and the United Arab Emirates - a non -employed member of the Council - avoided any criticism of Moscow In his speech, Mr. Zelensky insulted the UN because she had failed to prevent massacre in Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya. If "tyranny" had previously been fought by the UN, then his country would not be in war now, he said.

He suggested that a global conference in Kiev be called up to reform the world security system, and added: "It is time to redesign the United Nations system."

Mr. Zelensky said that every Russian military leader or politician who gave a command who led to a slaughter in his country should be put in front of a court, "similar to the Nuremberg tribunals".

he said: "I would like to remind the Russian diplomats that Ribbentrop has not escaped the punishment for crimes after the Second World War. I also remember that Adolf Eichmann has not remained undisputed."

Mr. Zelensky showed the 15-member security council a vivid 90-second video of the consequences of Russian atrocities, including dead women and children, burned body and victims in mass graves.

He said: "Russian troops deliberately destroy Ukrainian cities with artillery and air strikes. They deliberately block cities and cause mass hunger. They deliberately shoot on columns of civilians on the streets that try to escape the hostility.

The Russians had deported hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and kidnapped more than 2,000 children, he said.

Mr. Selenskyj added: "Russia wants to transform Ukraine into silent slaves."

Again and again dark evidence for massacre Russian armed forces appeared in Kiev's outskirts.

Ukrainian officials said that the corpses of more than 400 civilians had been found in cities around the capital.

Bucha is "just one of many examples of what the occupiers have done in our country in the past 41 days," said Selenskyj.

He said: "They shot women in front of their houses. They killed entire families and tried to burn the corpses. People were shot in the back of the head on the open street. Some were thrown in wells. They were killed in their apartments.

"civilians were crushed by tanks, while they were sitting in the middle of their cars on the street, they only cut them off. They cut off limbs, they cut their throats, women were raped and killed in front of their children. Their tongues were only cut off because the attacker did not hear what they wanted to hear."

He said that there were widespread looting by Russian armed forces, including "golden earrings are pulled out and covered with blood".

Mr. Zelensky said Moscow would try to claim that the atrocities are "fake" and "staged". "But it's 2022," he said. "Now we have conclusive evidence. There are satellite images."

Vasily Nextzya, Russia's envoy in the United Nations, accused Ukraine of "raising unfounded allegations against the Russian military that are not confirmed by any witnesses".

Sergej Lawrow, Russia's Foreign Minister, said the West attempts to make peace negotiations fail by shuffling "hysteria" over Bucha.

The EU is expected to approve a fifth round of sanctions against Moscow on Wednesday, including a ban on Russian coal imports - the first measure against energy controlled by the Kremlin. It can also approve the freezing of assets for the two daughters of Vladimir Putin.

Brussels said it was working on a ban on Russian oil after Foreign Minister Liz Truss had requested a clear schedule for an embargo for all Russian energy imports, including gas.

Western sanctions had "paralyzing effects" and "pushed the Russian economy back into the Soviet period," said Ms. Truss during a visit to Poland. She announced that Great Britain prevented hundreds of billions of pounds from finishing the War of the Russian President.

Boris Johnson asked Russian citizens to download VPNS - which enable access to the Internet outside of local censorship - to find out how Putin committed war crimes.

"Your president is accused of having committed war crimes," he said in a video address in Russian. "But I can't believe that he is in your name."

also Israel, which is holding back in his criticism of Russia, convicted Moscow for "war crimes".

Yair Lapid, the foreign minister of the country, said: "The pictures and testimonies from Ukraine are terrifying. Russian armed forces have committed war crimes against a defenseless civilian population."