Zelensky addresses UN Security Council: Russia must be held accountable for crime of aggression

Ukraine will submit for consideration by the 77th session of the UN General Assembly a resolution on holding the Russian Federation accountable for the crime of aggression.

Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council via video link, the president said that there is no war crime that the Russian occupiers have not yet committed on the territory of Ukraine.  Zelensky reminded about the deliberate creation of the threat of a radiation disaster, food crisis, violation of all international statutes and conventions. Separately, he focused on the murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian war criminals in the temporarily occupied Olenivka.

"The deliberate murder by the Russian occupiers of our prisoners of war in Olenivka became one of the most dreadful pages in the history of Europe. And there is an urgent need for a UN fact-finding mission to Olenivka, whose mandate should be extended to all Ukrainian prisoners of war currently held by Russian forces," Zelensky said.

He stressed that so that there is never again a threat of a radiation disaster, Russia must leave the occupied territory of Ukraine, and so that there is never again a threat of a radiation disaster, Russia must leave the occupied territory of Ukraine.

"So that no country in the world can ever again disregard the UN Charter and conventions binding on all mankind, without exception for anyone – Russia must be held accountable for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The relevant resolution will be submitted for consideration by the 77th session of the UN General Assembly," Zelensky added.