Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia before the United Nations on Tuesday of being a "terrorist state", prompting Russia to accuse him of using a speech before the Security Council as a "remote PR campaign" to obtain more Western weapons. Zelensky called on the Security Council to expel Moscow from the United Nations and establish A court to investigate the actions of the Russian army, which invaded Ukraine on February 24. However, Russia is a member of the council with veto power and can protect itself from any such action. "Russia has no right to participate in the discussion and vote regarding the war in Ukraine, which is unjustified and colonial," Zelensky told the council. "I call on you to strip the delegation of the terrorist state of its powers," he added. Moscow calls the invasion a "special military operation" to rid Ukraine of fascists, an assertion the Kyiv government and its Western allies say is a baseless pretext for unjustified war.
