Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address the United Nations Security Council Tuesday and likely discuss allegations of war crimes committed by Russia following the discovery of executions and mass graves.
World leaders expressed increasing outrage after seeing reports of dead Ukrainian civilians — many of whom appear to have been executed — strewn about in Bucha, a city northwest of Kyiv. Photos of bodies lining the streets and satellite images of mass graves first surfaced Saturday after Russian forces withdrew from positions outside Ukraine’s capital. Having seen the atrocities firsthand, Zelenskyy will address the Security Council Tuesday morning.
Barbara Woodward, the British ambassador to the U.N., told reporters Monday that Tuesday’s meeting will require council members to face “the true reality” of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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