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Laura Coates Live

Zelensky Pressures U.N. To Act Immediately On Russia

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the U.N. Security Council in the wake of the Bucha massacre, calling for Russian military members to be tried for war crimes and telling the Council to "dissolve yourself" if you won't punish Russia. That, as the U.S. announces new Russia sanctions and makes a case to expel it from the Human Rights Council.As Russia continues to lie about the horrors it is inflicting in Ukraine despite video evidence, Ukrainian Member of Parliament Andrii Osadchuk joins to discuss the daily death and destruction being witnessed across his country. Plus, NATO gathers war crimes evidence against Putin, a top U.S. general says the potential for ‘significant’ international conflict is increasing, and Lviv’s soccer club owner vows to change jobs and “become a sniper”.Hosted by Jake Tapper, live from Lviv. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is CNN tonight.

0:02.5

I'm Jake Tapper.

0:03.5

I'm live from Ukraine.

0:04.5

I'm going to warn you right now much of what you are going to see this hour is graphic

0:09.6

and can be disturbing.

0:11.7

And that's exactly what President Volodymyr Zelensky was driving home today in his direct

0:16.4

challenge to the world.

0:18.3

Now that you can see what Russia did in places such as Butchia, Ukraine, what will you

0:24.9

do, he said.

0:26.7

Zelensky did not hold back in his first address to the United Nations Security Council since

0:31.1

the beginning of this Russian invasion.

0:33.8

He methodically detailed Russia's heinous atrocities, calling them the worst war crime since

0:39.8

World War II.

0:41.7

Then Zelensky showed them to help make the case for further actions.

0:46.6

Zelensky called for the UN to act immediately, to adhere to its charter, to maintain peace

0:51.8

around the world or to not exist at all.

0:56.6

Where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee?

1:01.2

What is the purpose of our organization, either remove Russia as an aggressor and a source

1:07.4

of war so it cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war?

1:15.3

Or if there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself

1:22.3

altogether.

1:23.3

But Russia, as you might remember, holds veto power as one of the five permanent members

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