Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, while addressing the UN Security Council in a video conference on Tuesday (28), asked the UN to visit the area that was the target of a missile attack on a shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk.
The Ukrainian leader also called on Council members, including Russia, to hold a minute’s silence for those who died in the war.
“I suggest that the United Nations send a special representative, or the UN Secretary-General, or a plenipotentiary commission to the place where this act of terrorism took place, so that the UN can independently gather information and see that it really was a Russian missile attack.” Zelensky described the attack that killed 18 people on Monday.
The Ukrainian leader has asked the UN to define the term “terrorist state” legally, arguing that Moscow’s invasion of his country on February 24 shows “the urgent need to establish at the United Nations level and punish any terrorist state”.
Authorities said the attack in Kremenchuk left 18 dead, as well as dozens of wounded and missing.
Before Zelensky’s speech, Rosemary DiCarlo, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding, told the Security Council that the UN had registered more than 10,600 victims, including 4,731 dead in Ukraine. But the real number is “significantly higher,” she said.
Zelensky had already addressed the Security Council on April 5th.
source: Noticias
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