KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an impassioned address to the United Nations Security Council, on Tuesday likened Russian atrocities in his homeland to Nazi war crimes, calling for Nuremberg-style tribunals to hold Moscow accountable.
“They shot and killed women outside their houses — they killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies,” Zelenskyy said in a video appearance before the U.N. body, a day after an emotional visit to the ravaged town of Bucha, outside the capital, Kyiv.
“They cut off limbs, slashed throats, raped women in front of their children,” the Ukrainian leader said, issuing a stark challenge to the U.N. and other institutions to make sweeping changes to the global security architecture to prevent future calamities like the one that has befallen Ukraine.
