Raging at Russia over growing evidence of atrocities, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Tuesday delivered one of his most forceful denunciations of the invasion in a live video speech to the United Nations Security Council, calling the Russians war criminals who he said had killed families, raped women in front of their children, pillaged homes and left his country in ruins, “filled with mass graves.”
In his speech — a day after touring Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, the capital, where images have surfaced of many bodies of civilians Mr. Zelensky said had been killed by retreating Russian troops — the Ukrainian president said the Security Council was useless if it could not find a way to hold the perpetrators to account.
“There is not a single crime that they would not commit there,” Mr. Zelensky said of the departed Russian troops.
“Now the world can see what the Russian military did in Bucha, but the world has yet to see what it has done in other parts of our country,” Mr. Zelensky said.
