Zelenskyy urges stepped-up pressure on Russia at UN, warns conflict is spreading beyond Ukraine

The useful part

Zelenskyy calls for pressure on Russia, warns that war's impact is spreading beyond Ukraine. He called on states to restrict Russia's financial capacity to continue the conflict ahead of winter, and warned that the conflict's impacts are spreading beyond their borders. His remarks highlight Ukraine's reliance on military pressure when it cannot depend on the international system to enforce international norms.

How it works

• He reiterated this week that "if a nation wants peace, it must work on strong weapons." Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure are aimed at reducing Moscow's ability to finance the war.
• The plaintiffs, however, have struggled to collect damages awarded to them in successful litigations.
• In last year's remarks, Zelenskyy said that weapons, "not international law, not cooperation" decide who survives.
• They are enabled by advancements in Ukraine's long-range drone technology and have been called " long-ranged sanctions " by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
• Russian refinery throughput fell by roughly 30 percent and gasoline output by about 20 percent compared to last year.

What to take from it

He called on China and other influential states to use their leverage: "Limit his room to act. Joint weapons production, Zelenskyy added, is turning the war into an opportunity for security cooperation. He highlighted the FREYJA anti-ballistic missile program involving ten European countries, presented as a complement to existing Patriot and SAMP/T systems and potentially a scalable shield against ballistic threats.

Example or evidence

• He framed Ukraine's drone agreements—recently signed with Finland and under discussion with the US, Canada, and others—as contributions to "peace through cooperation" by helping its partners build modern,...
• He also alleged that Russia is using nationals of 47 other countries to fight its war.
• Limit his war." THIS DAY @ LAW Berlin Airlift ends The Berlin Airlift, a US-UK effort to circumvent a Soviet blockade of allied-occupied West Berlin, ended on September 30, 1949.
• After the Soviet Union cut off supply access to West Berlin, the US and UK sent necessities to the enclave by air.

Details worth keeping

News News President.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In his address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged countries to increase pressure on Russia nearly five years into its full-scale war against Ukraine. While Russia's status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) allows it to veto substantive resolutions, Zelenskyy urged countries to enforce existing sanctions to support Ukrainian efforts to deny Russian President Vladimir Putin the freedom to sustain the war. The Ukrainian president stressed that sanctions are not enough.

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