President Zelensky Tells UN of Horrors of Russian Invasion

According to president Zelensky, he said the UN Security Council that civilians had been murdered and Russian tanks had crushed people "for pleasure".

He called for those responsible to be tried as Nazis were at Nuremberg.

Gruesome images of bodies lying in the street in towns such as Bucha have generated condemnation worldwide.

After his speech by video link to the Security Council, Mr. Zelensky showed a graphic video of images of dead Ukrainians, some burned and disfigured.

"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country," he said.

"They killed entire families, adults, and children, and they tried to burn the bodies."

Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said there was no evidence that Russian troops had carried out atrocities.

"We've heard once again a huge amount of lies about Russian soldiers and military," he said.

As expected, President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a ferocious, passionate attack on the Russian military for its alleged violations in Bucha and elsewhere.

The catalog of horrors Mr. Zelensky lists includes throats slashed, limbs cut off, and women raped in front of their children.

He says there's no difference between this and the actions of terrorists, except that Russia is a member of the UN Security Council.

Mr. Zelensky said the UN had to act because not doing so would mean there was no point to the world body.

"Are you ready to close the UN? And the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately," he said, adding that "accountability must be inevitable".

"We are dealing with a state that turns its veto at the UN Security Council into the right to [cause] death," he said.

He called for the establishment of a special international tribunal to deal with the crimes, and for Russia to be removed from the UN's Security Council.