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Solely “mates and weapons,” not worldwide legal guidelines, can shield in opposition to warfare and authoritarian ambitions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Wednesday throughout an handle to the United Nations Normal Meeting.
The Ukrainian chief, who has been pleading with the worldwide neighborhood to do extra to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his greater than three-and-a-half-year-long warfare, as soon as once more cautioned that Ukraine might have been the primary European nation to bear Moscow’s affront to worldwide order, but it surely won’t be the final.
“Putin will maintain driving the warfare ahead wider and deeper. And we advised you earlier than, Ukraine is just the primary. And now Russian drones are already flying throughout Europe,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “Russian operations are already spreading throughout international locations, and Putin desires to proceed this warfare by increasing it.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in the course of the United Nations Normal Meeting (UNGA) on the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
“Nobody can really feel protected proper now,” he added.
A normal tone of dissatisfaction with the effectiveness of the rules-based system has repeatedly rung out in the course of the UNGA as world leaders condemned a growing disregard of international law and human rights amid rising safety threats and geopolitical conflicts.
Zelenskyy once more argued it’s cheaper to cease Putin now than try and catch up in an arms race, construct underground bunkers throughout cities and underneath kindergartens and to attempt to “shield each port and each ship from terrorists with sea drones.”
“Stopping Russia now could be cheaper than questioning who would be the first to create a easy drone carrying a nuclear warhead,” he mentioned.
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Firefighters work on the location of a burning constructing after a Russian assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photograph/Efrem Lukatsky)
Nevertheless it wasn’t solely the worldwide neighborhood’s failure to stop Putin that Zelenskyy addressed.
He pointed to the Israeli hostages who’re nonetheless held in Gaza and the horrific circumstances Palestinians stay in.
“There may be merely no different approach left [that] nations can converse in regards to the ache from levels like this,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “However even throughout bloodshed, there is not a single worldwide establishment that may actually cease it. That is how weak these establishments have turn out to be.
“What can Sudan or Somalia or Palestine or some other individuals dwelling via warfare actually anticipate from the UN or the worldwide system? Simply statements,” he mentioned.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in the course of the United Nations Normal Meeting (UNGA) on the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photos)
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“Ultimately, peace is determined by all of us, on the United Nations,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “So don’t remain silent whereas Russia retains dragging this warfare on. Please converse out and condemn it.
“Please be part of us in defending life and worldwide legislation and order,” he added. “Individuals are ready for motion.”
