A short video, closed with the plea “stop the Russian aggression”, took the horror in its purest form to that comfortable zone of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), that place where there is a lot of talk without disheveled.

The text to the atrocities was put by Volodímir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, who demanded to judge those responsible for that brutality for war crimes with a court like the one in Nuremberg for the Nazis.

“There is not a single crime that the Russians did not commit,” he said Tuesday. He advised that it is now Bucha, but that there are many other identical cities that have not come to light yet.

Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the organization, called for the creation of an independent investigation commission to ensure effective accountability. “I will never forget the horrible images of civilians killed in Bucha,” he said at the beginning of the meeting.

Russia replied that everything is a setup, carried out once its troops left, although there is evidence, such as that captured by satellites, that would confirm Russian authorship.

“People were shot in the street, in their flats. They crushed civilians with tanks when they were in their cars. Just for fun,” Zelensky said. “They severed necks, amputated people, cut out tongues so they wouldn’t hear what they didn’t want to hear. They raped the women in the presence of their children,” he stressed.

“It’s no different than what other terrorists do, like the Islamic State. “They deliberately shoot at columns of fleeing civilians,” he insisted.

In question the UN itself, which Zelensky warns against its dissolution if it is not thoroughly reformed

According to Zelensky, “the Russians have already deported hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and have abducted more than 2,000 children. “Russia wants to turn Ukraine into a country of silent slaves,” he added. And he stressed: “The Russian military are looting the cities and towns they capture. They steal everything, food and jewelry. Gold earrings that start covered in blood.

The Ukrainian president did not miss the global stage of diplomacy to demand an almost existential reform of the organization with the aim of preventing the aggressor from using the veto “as a right to kill,” he said. “If there is no other alternative, the next option is the dissolution of the UN,” he predicted.

“If this continues, countries will rely solely on the power of their own forces to ensure their security and not on international law or institutions,” Zelensky denounced, upset with the inability of the Security Council to make decisions as a result of the Russian veto. , an element of power that “destroys the architecture of the United Nations for its own benefit.”

Zelenski opted for convening a global conference to make the change possible. His objective would be to avoid these situations of impunity and provide the executive arm with a “fair representation of all the regions of the world”, with resources to stop wars and maintain borders.

“We have to do everything possible to leave an effective UN to the next generation, with the capacity to respond preventively to security problems, prevent aggression and force aggressors to peace,” he reiterated.

For the Russian ambassador, Vasili Nebenzia, everything Zelensky spoke about and the video he released are nothing more than montages that have the protection of the West, especially Washington. “Russia does not destroy cities like the United States and its allies did in Iraq or Syria,” he replied.

Nebenzia, who has previously questioned the impartiality of any independent investigation, as long as he does not agree with them, attributed the graves to neo-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists. “The United States fuels anti-Russian hysteria on a daily basis. There will be more provocations like Bucha’s to discredit Russian soldiers as thugs and rapists,” she said.

The President of Ukraine maintains by videoconference that the Russians killed “only for pleasure”

The Chinese representative fully aligned himself with the Kremlin ambassador by questioning the veracity of the images and their authorship. “Unfounded accusations are to be avoided,” he noted. And if Guterres spoke of the global consequences of the war, of the hunger that is spreading, the one in Beijing attributed it to the sanctions.

The American Linda Thomas Greenfield refused to respond to the accusations of mounting Moscow to not give them any value. “Once again,” she said, “Russia is attacking the credibility of this organization.”