“Russia has an international legal obligation to respect international humanitarian law, the laws of war, including the 1949 Geneva Convention.”
“Russia has an obligation to respect the decision of the International Court of Justice and to immediately suspend all military activities in Ukraine.”
“But, unfortunately, Russia has made another choice, that of disrespecting it and, in fact, ignoring international law.”
After the speech of the Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky, those are the words of the Ambassador of Albania to the United Nations, Ferit Hoxha, who is gaining a leading role in the international context.
The Security Council chamber is still shocked by the images of Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol and Dymerk that Ukrainian President put on the big screen.
The US ambassador brought to the courtroom the request already made by Zelensky for the suspension of Russia by the Security Council and for the removal of the veto, which would block any possible initiative of the international organization regarding the tragic situation in Ukraine.
“We can not allow a country that is overthrowing all the principles we believe in to participate in this council and use it to spread its propaganda,” said the Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
And the Albanian diplomat added his country’s consent to a disposition that would change the history of international politics as it has been since World War II.
But as the intervention of the Russian ambassador shows, who inadvertently subverts reality shamelessly (and without any evidence) blaming “Ukrainian Nazis” for crimes against civilians, it is certain that Moscow will veto any independent investigation into the Bucha’s massacre.
The UN Council rejected by a large majority (only Russia and China voted in favor), a humanitarian motion not to mention military occupation, introduced by Moscow.
But there was a broad consensus from all countries, including China, India and the UAE, on the other hand, on the proposal to set up an international commission to investigate the Bucha massacre.
In addition to satellite photos published by the New York Times, all foreign journalists who go to testify from the town near Kiev reported evidence that until April 1, the Russian military was present in the countryside. A clear denial of Russian theories, according to which their army had previously left Boucha.
Moscow soldiers would have filled the streets and houses with mines, which would explain the delay why the Ukrainians, after liberating Bucha, were able to enter the city and discover the macabre scene of bodies scattered across the streets.
One of the largest and most trusted international organizations such as Human Rights Watch has also announced that it has opened an investigation into Bucha and has already begun gathering evidence of war crimes to be deposited to the International Criminal Court.
Today has definitely been a difficult day for the Kremlin. European countries have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats, blocked ports for ships coming from the Russian Federation and also blocked coal imports.
All this while hour by hour new evidence was arriving about massacres of civilians in Ukraine, violence against women and children and bombing of civilian targets such as hospitals.
The positions of Western countries are becoming increasingly rigid and decisive towards Moscow. The demand to expel the Russian Federation from the UN Security Council, backed by the United States and other Western countries, is certainly the most serious threat, at least politically, to Vladimir Putin and his nationalist regime.
Russia has never been so isolated on the international stage as it is today, but if it were excluded from the apex of the UN organization, all its aspirations to become a superpower would end forever.
And as the West, finally and after long time disgusted and angry over Putin’s actions, is pushing it to the periphery of the international community, China, which today emerges as an ally, is ready to take its place (indeed, probably already took it) and Putin will only have to become the vassal of the true Eastern Emperor.
Russia is already a giant by argil feet. Putin has failed to build a strong economy, has lost all political credibility, and Ukraine’s sudden resistance, that resistance that took everyone by surprise for its strength and dignity and actually NATO-backed, is also tarnishing the image of its military invincibility.
Beijing is stronger than Moscow in each of these areas.If the war in Ukraine were to be the beginning of the renaissance of the Russian Empire (as Putin and his ideologue Dugin argue), it risks being the end of any renaissance dream.
