Ukraine President Zelensky Tells 60 Minutes He Saw Death Just Death After Touring Bucha

Zelensky, 44, made the remarks in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” scheduled for Sunday. The fighting president said he had just visited Bukha, a northern suburb of Kiev where Russian troops are said to have slaughtered civilians in a series of apparent war crimes earlier this week. “Death. Just death,” Zelensky told reporter Scott Pelly about the horrors he saw. Investigators have collected corpses – many with gunshot wounds or severe burns, many with their hands still tied – across Bucha, where the dead were found in mass graves and scattered in the city streets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky examines the site of a recent battle in Bucha, Ukraine in April. 4, 2022. APEcriminalists are in the mass grave showing the bodies of civilians killed by the Russian army in Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine on April 8, 2022. ZUMAPRESS.com Zelensky said Ukraine was fighting for basic human rights, not “Western values,” as Russia has argued in an effort to justify its invasion of the country. “We are defending the ability of a human being to live in the modern world. They say we are defending Western values. I always say, what are the western values? Someone living in the United States or Europe who does not like children? They do not want their children to go to university, do not they want their grandfather to live 100 years? “We have the same values,” said Zelensky of a government building in Kyiv. A woman walks amid a wreckage on a street in the Ukrainian city of Bukha after the Ukrainian army secured the area on April 8, 2022. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images “We are defending the right to life. I never thought this right was so expensive. These are human values. So that Russia does not choose what we should do and how I use my rights. “This right was given to me by God and my parents.” A preview of the interview was released online on Friday, as at least 52 Ukrainian civilians were killed in a rocket attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk, where thousands of people, including women and children, had gathered to flee eastern Ukraine.