Zelenskiy calls on UN to visit site of Kremenchuk shopping centre attack as Turkey lifts objections to Finland and Sweden joining Nato
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin Tuesday of becoming “a terrorist” leading a “terrorist state”
and urged Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations. In a virtual address to the UN security council, Zelenskiy urged the UN to establish an international tribunal to investigate “the actions of Russian occupiers on Ukrainian soil” and to hold the country accountable.warning that otherwise Russia’s “terrorist activity” will spread to other countries, singling out the Baltic states and Poland.
The Ukraine president also called for the United Nations to visit the site of a missile strike on a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk“I suggest the United Nations send either a special representative, or the secretary-general of the United Nations … so the UN could independently find out information and see that this indeed was a Russian missile strike,” he said of Monday’s attack which killed at least 18 people., with dozens of people still missing.
The Russian army claimed Tuesday it had hit a nearby weapons depot with the explosion sparking the blazeAll 15 Security Council members, including Russia, stood for a moment of silenceRussia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told the council that Zelenskiy’s appearance via video had undermined the authority of the body
. “The UN security council should not be turned into a platform for a remote PR campaign for president Zelenskiy in order to get more weapons from participants of the Nato Summit,” Polyanskiy said.
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