Ukraine war: UN chief admits Security Council has failed
At Thursday's briefing, President Zelensky said Mr Guterres had a chance to witness first-had "all the war crimes" committed by Russia in Ukraine.During the UN chief's visit, two blasts hit the central Shevchenko district of Kyiv, with three people taken to hospital with injuries, according to the city's mayor.
In the town of Borodyanka, north-west of Kyiv, Mr Guterres spoke to reporters in front of buildings that had been destroyed by strikes and shelling. And Mr Guterres made a passionate plea to save thousands of people in Ukraine's southern city of Mariupol, which has been virtually destroyed by weeks of heavy Russian bombardment.
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