Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Russia to be expelled from the Security Council when the United Nations disclosed details of the massacre of civilians in Russia.
President Zelensky attended a public meeting of the Security Council held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on the 5th (local time) via video and said, “Russia must be expelled from the permanent member of the Council so that it cannot block the (Security Council) decision on its aggression. The United Nations must be reformed. If that is not possible and there is no other alternative, all of you (UN) will have no choice but to disband.” It was a head-on criticism of the United Nations, which continued to be helpless in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine due to the exercise of its veto by Russia, his permanent member of the board.
President Zelensky compared Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians to the extremist terrorist group Islamic State (IS). “(People) were killed in apartments and houses by grenade explosions, and the Russian military will smash civilians in cars with tanks purely for fun,” he said. It is no different,” he said.
“The person who issued the criminal order and all those who killed our people by carrying out this order should be brought before a court similar to the Nuremberg court,” he said. The Nuremberg Court is where the U.S., Britain, and France held trials against Nazi war criminals in 1945.
“We share the frustration that President Zelensky feels that Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council,” White House press secretary Jen Saki said in a briefing on the UN Security Council reforms. “We will continue our efforts through other international organizations, not through the UN, in holding Russia accountable for war crimes,” said Saki.
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