Russian troops committing worst atrocities since Second World War, Zelensky tells UN
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Ukraine's president told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes, accusing invading troops of the worst atrocities since the Second World War.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, making his plea via video, cited reported atrocities against civilians carried out by Russian forces in the town of Bucha on the outskirts of the capital of Kyiv, saying they are no different than other terrorists, like the Islamic State extremist group.
Images of slain bodies on the ground, particularly from Bucha, have stirred global revulsion and led to demands for tougher sanctions and war crime prosecutions against Russia.
Zelensky, making his first appearance before the UN's highest body, stressed there are more places in Ukraine that have suffered similar horrors. He called for a tribunal to be established that is similar to the Nuremberg tribunal set up to try war criminals after the Second World War.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces and that a "torture chamber" was discovered in Bucha.
The head of NATO warned that Russia is regrouping its forces in order to deploy them to eastern and southern Ukraine for a "crucial phase of the war," and said that more "atrocities" may come to light as Russian troops continue to pull back in the north.
Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has vowed that "these acts of terror won't go unpunished," and U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.
The Kremlin has denounced the images as fake and suggested the scenes were staged by the Ukrainians. But high-resolution satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies had been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in the town.
Meanwhile, the European Union says 19 Russian diplomats are being expelled from Belgium. The expulsions follow other such moves by countries like Germany, France and Spain amid blistering criticism of Russia's war in Ukraine and discussions on a new set of sanctions.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says the expulsions of its diplomats will prompt a response from Moscow and will complicate international relations.
Meanwhile, the EU's executive branch has proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia in what would be the first sanctions targeting the country's lucrative energy industry over its war in Ukraine.
An international Red Cross team has shelved for Tuesday hopes of entering the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol after being held overnight by police in a town about 20 kilometres to the west.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which has been trying to get a small team into Mariupol since Friday as part of efforts to escort beleaguered civilians out and aid in, said the team held by police in Manhush was released overnight. It did not identify the nationality of the police involved, but Manhush is under Russian control.
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