Key points from Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to the UN General Assembly
Key messages from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to the United Nations General Assembly:
▫️ russia’s senseless war against Ukraine must be stopped.
▫️ This year alone, from January to August, the russian army lost 248,964 people killed and wounded. That is more than the population of 21 countries around the world.
▫️ A war that is not stopped in time spreads further. What russia was not punished for in time grows to a larger scale.
▫️ Donetsk region is not enough for putin. He wants more of our cities — Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and others.
▫️ russia constantly threatens the Baltic states and Moldova. russia shows no respect for the statehood of the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, or for people in Syria and African countries.
▫️ putin is the “patient zero” from whom this infection spreads, and wherever it spreads, it brings only pain, instability and new risks.
▫️ When someone gives russia more money through trade, they give russia more time. That is why Ukraine insists on sanctions against the aggressor and is therefore burning the aggressor’s revenues.
▫️ russia planned a major operation on the front this summer, but it failed.
▫️ Ukrainian troops have already successfully tested four jet-powered interceptor drones designed to counter jet-powered Shahed drones.
▫️ The Freya system could become an integrated part of the defense of Ukraine and Europe, helping protect the freedom of any nation.
▫️ When russia started this war, it did not imagine that Ukrainian long-range drones would reach its military factories in Siberia and Yamal.
▫️ De-escalation steps are important before winter, and they are needed now. Ukraine needs diplomacy and strength.
▫️ People from North Korea were not the only foreign nationals held captive in Ukraine. russia is using citizens of 47 countries in its war.
