“A war is nonsense in the 21st century,” the UN secretary-general said on Thursday on his arrival in Borodianka, one of the localities on the outskirts of kyiv where the Ukrainians accuse the Russians of having committed abuses during their occupation. of the region in March.
António Guterres, who is making his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, made these statements to journalists in front of ruined houses, 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 panic. War is nonsense in the 21st century, no war is acceptable in the 21st century,” he added.
António Guterres then went to Boutcha, another suburb of the capital where the Ukrainians accuse Moscow of war crimes. He was due to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky in kyiv in the afternoon.
The UN secretary-general arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday evening after a visit to Moscow on Tuesday, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked Russia to work with the UN to allow the evacuation of civilians from bombed areas. , particularly in eastern and southern Ukraine, where Russia is concentrating its offensive.
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