At the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. today in New York City, President Biden tried to rally the world to stick with Ukraine and warned against appeasing Moscow in a way that would reward its aggression.
“Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence,” Biden told the General Assembly.
“But I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles” of the United Nations Charter “to appease an aggressor, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected?”President Volodymyr Zelensky gave his own speech soon afterward, presenting Russia’s aggression as an unrelenting worldwide threat that will not stop at the borders of Ukraine.
“The goal of the present war against Ukraine is to turn our land, our people, our lives, our resources into a weapon against you, against the international rules-based order,” Zelensky told the leaders.
He added that Russia was weaponizing essentials like food and energy “not only against our country, but against all of yours as well.”
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Biden, “, ” Biden, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Zelensky
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