Kremlin will not hide behind UN Security Council seat and gas pipes - Zelensky

The Kremlin will not be able to hide behind a seat on the UN Security Council and gas pipes and it will be held accountable for every crime committed in Ukraine.

He said this in a nightly video address on April 3, Ukrinform reports.

"There were many different events and negotiations in the Chernihiv region starting from this morning. One of the most difficult trips in terms of emotions. We visited Yahidne, an ordinary small village of our Chernihiv region, which Russian savages turned into one of the world's biggest examples of human abuse last year," Zelensky said.

He noted that Russian soldiers had set up a command post at the school in Yahidne, and drove all the villagers into the basement of the school.

Zelensky said that from March 3 to March 30 of last year, the occupiers kept more than 300 people in the basement of this school – an ordinary village school, the basement with an area of less than 200 square meters.

"Elderly people and little children, women and men... The oldest woman was 93 years old, the youngest child was less than six months old. We will never forgive the evil state for this basement, this concentration camp in Yahidne, just as for all other crimes of Russia against people and humanity. And not only us," he said.

He added that the Kremlin would not be able to hide behind a chair in the UN Security Council, gas pipes or anything else. "There will certainly be legal and fair responsibility for every Russian crime committed on Ukrainian soil. In the tribunal, in the International Criminal Court, in Ukrainian courts," he said.

Zelensky thanked the guests of Ukraine who visited the Chernihiv region, who saw this concentration of Russian evil in Yahidne.

"I am grateful to the guests of Ukraine who visited the Chernihiv region with me, who saw this concentration of Russian evil in our Yahidne. I thank German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric. I am also thankful for the negotiations - meaningful and correct. I thank UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay for her attention to Ukraine, for today's meetings in Ukraine. We are preparing the UNESCO World Heritage status for the historical center of Chernihiv. The same status that was recently obtained for the historical center of our Odesa," he said.