I'm standing on a rooftop looking out on Levyve on day 41 of Russia's brutal invasion

of Ukraine.

I'm Jake Tapper.

Welcome to this special broadcast of the lead live from Western Ukraine today, President

Rolodymyr Zelensky.

Try to force the United Nations Security Council to confront the reality that the UN in general

and individual countries separately have not stopped Vladimir Putin and his troops who

continue to bomb, to shoot, to rape, to slaughter innocent civilians.

Zelensky went into graphic detail about the horrors being inflicted on the Ukrainian

people, what he and his teams and our CNN crews on the ground separately have witnessed

in places such as the recently liberated town of Bocha.

The civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars on the middle of the road,

just for their pleasure.

They cut off limbs, slashed their throats, women raped and killed in front of their children.

Their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did not hear what they wanted

to hear from them.

This is no different from other terrorists.

It is, of course, not just Bocha.

CNN's Frederick Plytkin just returned from the nearby town of Borodoyanka.

He spoke to volunteer body collectors who were walking through the streets, picking up

the corpses of civilians who had been bound and killed.

CNN teams saw entire village blocks, reduced to rubble, burned out military vehicles, littering

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