Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the world’s leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the U.N.
General Assembly that “Russia’s revenues must remain a target.”
“When someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. General Assembly. Russia gets its turn Saturday to address the assembly. President Vladimir Putin hasn’t traveled to the gathering in years, sending Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov instead. He argued that such a pause would just buy Ukraine and its backers time to line up more weapons. “Something always seems to stop Putin from saying, ‘That’s it. “Can you even imagine him without war? He is ‘Patient Zero’, the one from whom war keeps spreading further. … ‘Patient Zero’ must be stopped.”
And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia’s revenues ourselves,” he said, speaking in English at the U.N. Lavrov told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that Russia is prepared to negotiate toward a lasting peace but won’t just “pause” the war. Enough, Peace,'” Zelenskyy said.
