Zelenskyy reacts to devastating images coming out of Ukraine: ‘This is genocide’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday reacted to disturbing new photos popping out of a suburb of the capital Kyiv displaying the our bodies of executed civilians by calling Russia’s assaults “genocide.”

“Certainly, that is genocide,” Zelenskyy stated throughout a “Face the Nation” interview  on CBS. “The elimination of an entire nation, and the individuals — we’re residents of Ukraine.”

“We’ve greater than 100 nationalities. That is about destruction and extermination of all these nationalities,” Zelenskyy advised host Margaret Brennan. “We’re the residents of Ukraine and we don’t wish to be subdued to the coverage of Russian Federation. That is the rationale we’re being destroyed and exterminated. And that is occurring within the Europe of the twenty first century. So that is the torture of the entire nation.”

Brennan requested Zelenskyy whether or not he believed the world would “truly make good on this promise” to carry Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for conflict crimes, prompting him to say that all the things “needs to be truthful and in line with justice, because the civilized world will determine.”

Zelenskyy went on to say that he would not consider it’s “truthful” to solely maintain Putin accountable and punish him, including, “I feel all the navy commanders, everybody who gave directions and orders needs to be punished adequately.” Nonetheless, he stated that the “ample punishment” for these individuals is “tough to be achieved.”

“It needs to be performed in line with the legislation and what they’ve performed,” Zelenskyy continued. “And I wish to apologize to you and to these people who find themselves watching us now, however for some issues that they’ve performed — once we discover individuals with arms tied behind their again and decapitated, such issues I do not perceive, I do not comprehend.”

SEC. BLINKEN SAYS WE CANNOT BECOME ‘NUMB’ TO PUTIN’S WAR CRIMES, VOWS ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks throughout a joint information convention in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 8, 2022.
(AP Photograph/Raul Mee)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken additionally reacted Sunday to the pictures out of Bucha, Ukraine, close to Kyiv, displaying civilian males who had been reportedly executed and left on the streets, throughout an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” saying the pictures had been a “punch to the intestine.” 

“We have stated earlier than Russia’s aggression that we thought it was probably that they’d commit atrocities. For the reason that aggression, we have come out and stated that we consider that Russian forces have dedicated conflict crimes,” Blinken stated.” And we have been working to doc that to offer the data that we have now to the related establishments and organizations that can put all this collectively and there must be accountability for it.”

“I feel a very powerful factor is we will not turn into numb to this. We won’t normalize this,” Blinken added. 

CNN Host Dana Bash stated that the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Sunday that “Russians intention to get rid of as many Ukrainians as they will.”

Fox Information’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.