Zelensky believes that the Russian aggression could expand past Ukraine
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Visits Russia after Kim Jong Un’s Trip to the United Nations: News from the U.S. embassy in Kiev
The office in Kyiv is expected to increase efficiency in responding to war crimes. Ukraine’s prosecutor general said it is the largest ICC office outside The Hague.
Analysts are watching for explanations regarding the dismissal of the six deputy defense ministers. The reshuffle comes weeks after the government fired its defense minister.
Starting Tuesday, the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York. Opening day speakers are to include President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian leader is expected this week to meet with Biden as well as Pentagon officials and lawmakers. The UNGA will host a speech by Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday.
Russia was visited by the leader of North Korea who pledged to support Moscow’s fight against “imperialism”. Putin was willing to help put a satellite in the sky. The leaders could be pursuing a weapons deal according to the US and South Korea.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling the Belarusian government an “accomplice” in Russia’s war in Ukraine. The country, bordering both Russia and Ukraine, has allowed Russian military and mercenary forces to be stationed on its territory, which Russia used as a staging ground for its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The eastern villages were taken back by the nation’s military. Recapturing the villages of Andriivka earlier in the week and Klishchiivka on Sunday — both destroyed by fighting — could allow Ukrainian forces to move farther into enemy lines around Bakhmut, an eastern city that fell to Russian forces in May after months of fighting.
Donald J. Zelensky during the First Year of the War in Ukraine, Addressing the United Nations Security Council and Israel’s National Press Secretary, Rosh Hashana
More than 2,000 people in different countries sent letters in support of Evan Gershkovich for the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashana. The American Wall Street Journal reporter has been imprisoned in Russia since March.
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The goal of the war against Ukraine is to turn the land, the people, the lives, the resources into a weapon against you, said Mr. Zelensky, wearing one of his trademark olive green military-style shirts. He said we have to stop it. We must all work together to defeat the enemy.
President Biden sought to rally the world on Tuesday to stick with Ukraine and warned against appeasing Moscow in a way that would reward its aggression and encourage the further use of force to redraw the global map.
The president used his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly to try to counter war fatigue both at home and abroad even as House Republicans back in Washington hold up further military aid to Ukraine and nations around the globe remain on the sidelines or even facilitate the Kremlin’s war.
He dismissed the effort to broker a peace deal without Ukrainian involvement as shady dealings behind the scenes. Characterizing Russia as an unreliable partner, he cited the recent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary leader who had defied Mr. Putin. Mr. Zelensky said that evil couldn’t be trusted. If one bets on Putins promises, ask Prigozhin.
Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Zelensky received strong applause from some of the delegations in the hall, but many others sat on their hands. Mr. Putin, the target of an arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court, did not come to New York for the annual opening session, but his envoy sat in Russia’s seat during Mr. Zelensky’s speech taking notes or looking down at his phone.
The Security Council was to hear from Mr. Zelensky on Wednesday and then he would go to the White House to meet with Mr. Biden on Thursday.
While he did not address a joint meeting of Congress in the first battle of Washington last winter, he will not see the same level of resistance this time around from the Republicans in the House. The war is not central to America’s interests and the money spent on it would be better spent at home on border security or other priorities.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J Austin III said on Tuesday that the American M1Abrams would be arriving inUkraine soon. He said after a meeting of about 50 countries that they would add more armor to the weapons already on the battlefield. He said that we had their backs and saluted the brave forces of Ukraine. Ukraine’s fight is one of the one of the great causes of our time.”
The area of competition between Russia and China, known as the “Stans,” has been an area of competition for some time, but the United States has also sought influence there, especially during its disastrous war in Afghanistan. The Biden meeting with the leaders was in line with his strategy of bolstering relations with nations in the China neighborhood to counterbalance Beijing’s actions.
He kept up his commitment to fight against the brutal war of Russia while trying to find ways to work together with Beijing, denying that he was trying to contain the Asian giant. The competition between us should be managed so that it doesn’t tip into conflict.
Mr. Biden mentioned a litany of other major issues confronting the world today, like fentanyl abuse, artificial intelligence, terrorism, human rights, women’s rights, L.G.B.T. rights and arms control, without breaking much new ground on any of them. He urged more action to be taken to combat climate change, citing heat waves, wildfires and the flooding in Libya.
“Together, these snapshots tell an urgent story of what awaits us if we fail to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and begin to climate-proof the world,” he said. He said the United States has treated the crisis as an “ideological threat” from the day he took office.
The First Meeting of the Bidens with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazilian Prime Minister Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Biden and Jill Biden were to host a reception for other world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On Wednesday, he was scheduled to sit down separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.
The meeting between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Biden will be their first together since Mr. Biden became president. In his speech on Tuesday, Mr. Biden touted his efforts to open diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia while emphasizing his support for a two-state solution to Israel’s conflict with Palestinians.
“Each decade, Russia starts a new war,” he added, noting Moscow’s invasions and military interventions in Moldova, Georgia and Syria as well as its pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Baltic republics.
“War crimes must be punished, deported people must come home and the occupier must return to their own land,” Mr. Zelensky said before finishing with the historical national saying that has become a defiant mantra since the war began: “Slava Ukraini,” or “Glory to Ukraine.”
Speaker Kevin McCarthy responded sharply when asked about America’s commitment to Ukraine. Zelensky should be elected to Congress. Is he our president? I don’t think I have to do anything. and I think I have questions for him,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Where is the accountability on the money we have already spent? What is the plan for victory? I think that’s what the American public wants to know.”
