He called on the UN Security Council to remove Russia or "dissolve" itself.
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In a blistering speech to the UN Security Council (UNSC), Zelenskyy offered harrowing details of the massacre in Bucha — a suburb near Kyiv where hundreds of civilians were killed.
"They inflame wars and deliberately lead them in such a way that to kill as many regular civilians and cities," Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy slammed the current framework of the UN and the UNSC, which he said failed to help prevent the war in Ukraine.
If there is "no alternative and no option" in terms of removing Russia, Zelenskyy said, then the body should "dissolve" itself altogether.
Moscow has denied any involvement in the killings in Bucha, while pushing conspiracy theories that images of dead civilians in the Kyiv suburb were fabricated. »