If this continues, the countries will be rely only on the power of their own arms to ensure their security and not on international law, not rely on international institutions.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine, having taken office in May 2019. A former comedian and television producer, he gained prominence through his role in the television series 'Servant of the People,' where he played a schoolteacher who unexpectedly becomes president. Zelenskyy ran for office as a political outsider, campaigning on anti-corruption and reform agendas. His leadership has been particularly noted during the ongoing conflict with Russia, where he has sought to rally international support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Today was indeed a hard and emotional day. The bodies of the dead people, the dead Ukrainians were taken from most of the streets but in some yards of some houses the dead bodies remain. It is especially hard to see the bullet holes on the…
This is a war crime, he said, and it will be recognized by the world as genocide.
I am addressing you on behalf of the people who honor the memory of the deceased every single day in the memory of the civilians who died who were shot and killed in the back of their head after being tortured.
The massacre in our city of Bucha is just one, unfortunately, of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our land for 41 days.
Are you ready to close the U.N.? Do you think that the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately.
So, I'm -- keep talking about this dialogue, something that I have been repeating throughout my term as a president.
We are the citizens of Ukraine. We have more than 100 nationalities. This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities.
I'm not talking about ending this with peace, because peace in this situation, when there are thousands of people killed, is something that I'm not fine with.
I think all the military commanders, everyone who gave instructions and orders should be punished adequately.
These are war crimes, and they will be recognized by the world as genocide. You are here and you can see what happened. We know that thousands of people killed and tortured, teared limb, raped women, and killed children.
There's already information that the number of victims of the occupiers maybe even higher in (INAUDIBLE), in some other liberated cities, in many villages of the liberated districts of the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the occupiers…
This makes it much harder to come back to any negotiating table with Vladimir Putin`s diplomats.
This is a war crime and it will be recognized by the world as genocide. You are here and you see what has happened. We know thousands of people were killed and tortured with severed limbs, raped women, killed children. I think this is…
Everything has to be fair and according to justice, as the civilized world will decide.
There is no any other way, but the dialogue, if we don't want hundreds of thousands, millions to die.
It is very difficult to negotiate with Russia when you see what they have done here.





