Zelensky calls for war crimes trials

President Zelensky addresses the UN

VOLODYMYR Zelensky accused Russia of committing the “most terrible war crimes since the Second World War" as he called for trials akin to those held after the defeat of the Nazis.

In a graphic address to the United Nations (UN) Security Council yesterday, the Ukrainian President accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin's forces of creating“ "mass starvation" and shooting and raping civilians.

During the UK-convened meeting of the UN's most powerful body, whose membership includes Russia, he called for those responsible to be “brought to justice” in a tribunal similar to the Nuremberg trials.

Mr. Zelensky said the world has yet to see what the Kremlin's troops have done in other regions after evidence of atrocities was unearthed after their withdrawal from Bucha, near Kyiv.

"Today, as a result of Russia's actions in our country, in Ukraine, the most terrible war crimes we've seen since the end of World War Two are being committed," he said in the virtual address.