Zelenskyy says Russian UN Security Council presidency is absurd

The Kremlin said on Friday it planned to "exercise all its rights" in the role

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Picture: AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it was absurd Russia had assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, adding this showed the institution's "total bankruptcy".

On Saturday Russia took over the presidency of the UN's top security body, which rotates every month.