Russia uses nukes to act with impunity

Russia uses nukes to act with impunity - Zelensky

Moscow believes it can commit war crimes with impunity because of its status as a nuclear power, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

"Russians do not believe they can be held responsible for war crimes because they have the power of a nuclear state," the leader said in an address to the Chatham House think tank.

Qazet.az reports that When asked about the situation in Mariupol, Zelensky said "this is not a military event" but "torture with starvation."

He blamed the "beastly attitude" of the Russian military in Mariupol on decades of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

"There will be a military tribunal for the killing, the death, the torture. But why this cruelty? That's the information apparatus that developed this hatred and heated it to such an extent before the fully-fledged war."