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UNITED NATIONS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the world\u2019s leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia\u2019s revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the UN General Assembly that \u201cRussia\u2019s revenues must remain a target.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia\u2019s revenues ourselves,\u201d he said, speaking in English at the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Russia gets its turn Saturday to address the assembly. President Vladimir Putin hasn\u2019t traveled to the gathering in years, sending Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov instead. Lavrov told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that Russia is prepared to negotiate toward a lasting peace but won\u2019t just \u201cpause\u201d the war. He argued that such a pause would just buy Ukraine and its backers time to line up more weapons.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething always seems to stop Putin from saying, \u2018That\u2019s it. Enough, Peace,\u2019\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cCan you even imagine him without war? He is \u2018Patient Zero\u2019, the one from whom war keeps spreading further. … \u2018Patient Zero\u2019 must be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russia invaded Ukraine more than 4\u00bd years ago. Western analysts estimate that over 500,000 Russian troops have been killed and that Ukraine has recorded more than 500,000 military casualties, including up to 140,000 deaths. Neither country discloses its own casualty totals.<\/p>\n
The war has had global repercussions for fuel, fertilizer and grain shipments \u2014 and for geopolitics, widening divisions between Russia and the West.<\/p>\n
With front-line positions in eastern and southern Ukraine largely unchanged since last year, Russia and Ukraine have intensified long-range attacks with drones and missiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n