“War is nonsense in the 21st century,” the United Nations chief said Thursday upon arrival in Borodianka, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv, where Ukrainians accuse the Russians of committing abuses during their occupation. area in March.
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Antonio Guterres, who is on his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, made the remarks to reporters in front of destroyed homes accompanied by Ukrainian soldiers and local authority officials.
“I imagine my family in one of these houses that are now destroyed and blackened,” he told reporters. “I see my granddaughters running in a panic. War is nonsense in the 21st century, and a war in the 21st century cannot be accepted.”
Antonio Guterres then went to Bucha, another suburb of the capital where Ukrainians accuse Moscow of war crimes. He was scheduled to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv in the afternoon.
The United Nations chief arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday evening after a visit to Moscow on Tuesday, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked Russia to work with the United Nations to allow the evacuation of civilians from bombed areas. Ukraine, where Russia is focusing its offensive.
