New York: UkrainePresident of Volodymyr zelensky Guilty Russia Tuesday to become a “terrorist” state that carries out “daily terrorist acts” and urged expulsion from Russia United Nations,
In a virtual address to the UN Security Council, Zelensky urged the UN to establish an international tribunal to investigate “the actions of the Russian occupiers on Ukrainian soil” and to hold the country accountable.
Zelensky warned, “We need Russia to take immediate action to do everything we can to stop the killing spree, otherwise Russia’s “terrorist activity” will spread to other European countries and to Asia, the Baltic states, Poland. , will separate Moldova and Kazakhstan.
“What is punished at the level of specific criminals and criminal organizations should not be punished at the level of the state which has become terrorist,” he said. “Daily terrorist acts. No days off. They work as terrorists every day.”
Urging Russia’s exclusion from the 193-member United Nations, Zelensky cited Article 6 of the United Nations Charter which states that a member “who has consistently violated the principles enshrined in the present Charter shall be recommended by the General Assembly.” Can be expelled from the organization. of the Security Council.”
However, the expulsion of Russia is almost impossible. This is because as a permanent council member Russia would be able to use its veto to block any attempts to oust it.
Ukraine called a council meeting after Russia’s recent attacks, including Monday’s gruesome airstrikes on a crowded shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk, which Zelensky said killed at least 18 people and injured 30 others. Went. “Dozens are missing,” he said, and while body fragments, including arms and legs, have been found, unfortunately there may be more victims.
The Ukrainian leader began his speech listing Russia’s attacks in recent days and the names and ages of several victims. He ended his address by asking 15 Security Council members and others to stand in silent tribute in memory of “tens of thousands” of Ukrainian children and adults killed in the war.
All the members rose, including Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky.
When he took the stage later, Polinski opposed giving Zelensky a second opportunity to address the Security Council, a decision by Albania who presides over the council this month.
The Russian envoy said the Ukrainian president’s video address violated the council’s conventions and existing practices, adding that leaders who wish to speak to the council must be present in the chamber.
“The UN Security Council should not turn from President Zelensky into a forum for a remote PR campaign to get more weapons from the participants. nato The summit” begins in Madrid on Wednesday, Polinski said.
He claimed that there was no Russian strike on the shopping center in Kremenchuk, adding that Russian precision weapons had supplied hangars at the Kremenchuk Road Machinery Plant with weapons and ammunition from the United States and Europe to Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donbass. fixed.
The shopping center was some distance away, but the detonation of ammunition “caused a fire that then spread to the shopping center,” Polinski said.
The Russian envoy told Western countries that by supplying weapons to Ukraine they were prolonging the time Ukraine’s leaders would “sit at the negotiating table with a realistic position rather than with slogans.”
“We launched a special military operation to stop the shelling of Donbass by Ukraine and the territory of this country, which has been converted into anti-Russian at the behest of its nationalist leadership, along with many Western countries , Russia or Ukraine. ceases to pose a threat to residents of the south and southeast,” he said. “And until those goals are achieved, our operation will continue.”
Britain’s UN ambassador Barbara Woodward counterattacked that Russia “may try to claim that nothing is true and make outrageous claims of Ukrainian provocation” but the undeniable fact remains that Russia invaded Ukraine. .
“Here’s an attacker,” she said. “The evidence will reach them and there will be accountability for these crimes.”
China’s ambassador to Russia, Zhang Jun, called the conflict “a geopolitical crisis with multidimensional spillover effects” and called on the international community to work together to create conditions for Russian-Ukrainian peace talks to end hostilities at the earliest. urged to do ,
“Efforts to arm the world economy and force other countries to take sides will artificially divide the international community, and make the world even less secure,” Zhang warned. “Delaying and obstructing diplomatic negotiations for geopolitical purposes will only fuel the fire to escalate conflicts and escalate conflicts. Inevitably, it will hurt itself.”
Like many other Western ambassadors, US Deputy Ambassador Richard Mills accused Russia of destroying the shopping center, saying the attack “fits into a brutal pattern, one where Russian forces kill civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.” destroys the structure.”
He stressed that there is ample publicly available evidence that “Russia and Russia alone” are responsible for this and other attacks.
In a virtual address to the UN Security Council, Zelensky urged the UN to establish an international tribunal to investigate “the actions of the Russian occupiers on Ukrainian soil” and to hold the country accountable.
Zelensky warned, “We need Russia to take immediate action to do everything we can to stop the killing spree, otherwise Russia’s “terrorist activity” will spread to other European countries and to Asia, the Baltic states, Poland. , will separate Moldova and Kazakhstan.
“What is punished at the level of specific criminals and criminal organizations should not be punished at the level of the state which has become terrorist,” he said. “Daily terrorist acts. No days off. They work as terrorists every day.”
Urging Russia’s exclusion from the 193-member United Nations, Zelensky cited Article 6 of the United Nations Charter which states that a member “who has consistently violated the principles enshrined in the present Charter shall be recommended by the General Assembly.” Can be expelled from the organization. of the Security Council.”
However, the expulsion of Russia is almost impossible. This is because as a permanent council member Russia would be able to use its veto to block any attempts to oust it.
Ukraine called a council meeting after Russia’s recent attacks, including Monday’s gruesome airstrikes on a crowded shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk, which Zelensky said killed at least 18 people and injured 30 others. Went. “Dozens are missing,” he said, and while body fragments, including arms and legs, have been found, unfortunately there may be more victims.
The Ukrainian leader began his speech listing Russia’s attacks in recent days and the names and ages of several victims. He ended his address by asking 15 Security Council members and others to stand in silent tribute in memory of “tens of thousands” of Ukrainian children and adults killed in the war.
All the members rose, including Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky.
When he took the stage later, Polinski opposed giving Zelensky a second opportunity to address the Security Council, a decision by Albania who presides over the council this month.
The Russian envoy said the Ukrainian president’s video address violated the council’s conventions and existing practices, adding that leaders who wish to speak to the council must be present in the chamber.
“The UN Security Council should not turn from President Zelensky into a forum for a remote PR campaign to get more weapons from the participants. nato The summit” begins in Madrid on Wednesday, Polinski said.
He claimed that there was no Russian strike on the shopping center in Kremenchuk, adding that Russian precision weapons had supplied hangars at the Kremenchuk Road Machinery Plant with weapons and ammunition from the United States and Europe to Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donbass. fixed.
The shopping center was some distance away, but the detonation of ammunition “caused a fire that then spread to the shopping center,” Polinski said.
The Russian envoy told Western countries that by supplying weapons to Ukraine they were prolonging the time Ukraine’s leaders would “sit at the negotiating table with a realistic position rather than with slogans.”
“We launched a special military operation to stop the shelling of Donbass by Ukraine and the territory of this country, which has been converted into anti-Russian at the behest of its nationalist leadership, along with many Western countries , Russia or Ukraine. ceases to pose a threat to residents of the south and southeast,” he said. “And until those goals are achieved, our operation will continue.”
Britain’s UN ambassador Barbara Woodward counterattacked that Russia “may try to claim that nothing is true and make outrageous claims of Ukrainian provocation” but the undeniable fact remains that Russia invaded Ukraine. .
“Here’s an attacker,” she said. “The evidence will reach them and there will be accountability for these crimes.”
China’s ambassador to Russia, Zhang Jun, called the conflict “a geopolitical crisis with multidimensional spillover effects” and called on the international community to work together to create conditions for Russian-Ukrainian peace talks to end hostilities at the earliest. urged to do ,
“Efforts to arm the world economy and force other countries to take sides will artificially divide the international community, and make the world even less secure,” Zhang warned. “Delaying and obstructing diplomatic negotiations for geopolitical purposes will only fuel the fire to escalate conflicts and escalate conflicts. Inevitably, it will hurt itself.”
Like many other Western ambassadors, US Deputy Ambassador Richard Mills accused Russia of destroying the shopping center, saying the attack “fits into a brutal pattern, one where Russian forces kill civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.” destroys the structure.”
He stressed that there is ample publicly available evidence that “Russia and Russia alone” are responsible for this and other attacks.