Volodymyr Zelensky compares Russia to ISIS for their ‘war crimes’ in Bucha

Volodymyr Zelensky compares Russia to ISIS for their ‘war crimes’ in Bucha and tells the UN women were raped and killed in front of their families and had their tongues cut out.

Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia is committing the ‘worst war crimes’ since WWII
He called out the UN Security Council for not providing any security to Ukraine
The president demanded reform and said Russia is enslaving Ukrainian people

Volodymyr Zelensky has compared Russia to ISIS for their ‘war crimes’ in Bucha during a fiery speech to the Security Council today as he slammed the UN body for failing to protect Ukraine. 

The president said atrocities have been carried out throughout the country, with women raped and killed in front of their families, and people captured and deported to Russia and turned into ‘slaves’. 

He called out the Security Council for failing to provide any security, demanding Russia’s expulsion from the global body and reform to ensure no further illegal invasions in the future.

The Ukrainian president said: ‘So where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee? It’s not there. Although there is a Security Council and so where is the peace?

‘It is obvious that the key institution of the world which must ensure the coercion of any aggressor to peace simply cannot work effectively.’

He told of civilians being run over deliberately by tanks, people’s tongues being cut out and gang rapes being committed by invading Kremlin forces in ‘the most terrible war crimes’ since WWII, as he shared a harrowing video of burnt corpses and bodies stuffed in wells to the council.

People ‘were killed in their apartments, houses… civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road, just for their pleasure,’ Zelensky told the Council, including Moscow’s envoy. 

The wartime leader said he feared Russians turning his people into ‘silent slaves’ as he said ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Ukrainians have been deported to Russia.

He also urged reform of the UN because the current system of global security has failed, and called on world leaders to act ‘immediately’ against Russia.

Russia’s envoy predictably dismissed the claims as ‘lies’ as he repeated unfounded Kremlin claims about Nazis running Ukraine.

Meanwhile UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is one of the greatest challenges ever to international order.

Speaking to the Security Council in New York, the UN chief said there is mounting evidence of war crimes, rapes and sexual assaults by Putin’s forces.

He said, referencing the piles of civilians bodies near the capital of Kyiv which emerged this weekend: ‘I will never forget the horrifying images of the civilians in Bucha.’

‘The war in Ukraine must stop – now,’ Guterres told the Council, after calling it ‘one of the greatest challenges ever to the international order.’

‘We need serious negotiations for peace, based on the principles of the United Nations Charter,’ he said.

Guterres said the war was putting even more pressure on the developing world, with more than 1.2billion people particularly vulnerable to to spiking food, energy and fertilizer costs.

‘We are already seeing some countries move from vulnerability into crisis, and signs of serious social unrest,’ he added.

UN undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo told the meeting of ‘credible’ claims Russia has used indiscriminate cluster munitions two dozen times in populated parts of Ukraine.

She said: ‘OHCHR has received credible allegations that Russian forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas at least 24 times.’

She said the global body was ‘gravely concerned by the persistent use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area,’ saying such weapons are causing the most civilian casualties in the war.

During a visit on Monday to Bucha, where AFP counted 20 bodies on a single street, he accused Russia of ‘war crimes’ and attempted ‘genocide’ and asked Europe to apply the ‘most severe pressure’.  

The head of NATO, meanwhile, warned that Russia is regrouping its forces in order to deploy them to eastern and southern Ukraine for a ‘crucial phase of the war,’ and said that more ‘atrocities’ may come to light as Russian troops continue to pull back in the north.

‘When and if they withdraw their troops and Ukrainian troops take over, I’m afraid they will see more mass graves, more atrocities and more examples of of war crimes,’ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces and that a ‘torture chamber’ was discovered in the town called Bucha, from which some of the grimmest details have emerged.

Police and other investigators walked the silent streets of Bucha on Tuesday, taking notes on bodies that residents showed them. Survivors who hid in their homes during the monthlong Russian occupation of the town, many of them past middle age, wandered past charred tanks and jagged window panes with plastic bags of food and other humanitarian aid. Red Cross workers checked in on intact home