Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, at UN, urges world’s leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — 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. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia’s revenues ourselves,” he said in English, a language he often uses at the world body.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.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. He argued that such a pause would just buy Ukraine and its backers time to line up more weapons.Zelenskyy cast doubt on Russia's interest in ending the fighting.“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."The war has reverberated across the planetRussia invaded Ukraine more than 4½ years ago and says it's out to protect its own security and the interests of Russians and Russian-speakers in parts of Ukraine.

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.The war has had global repercussions for fuel, fertilizer and grain shipments — and for geopolitics, widening divisions between Russia and the West.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.Russian drones pounded the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in daylight attacks on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 23; two others were injured by a strike that started a big fire at a shopping mall in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.Russia’s Defense Ministry said it struck Ukrainian military-industrial and energy facilities, logistics centers, and sea vessels overnight. The ministry said its air defenses interce…

‘When 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's revenues ourselves,’ said Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeals to world leaders at the UN General Assembly to target Russia’s revenues in order to curtail its war efforts. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President 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.Russia gets its turn Saturday to address the assembly. ‘Patient Zero’ must be stopped."Russia invaded Ukraine more than 4½ years ago. Russia gets its turn Saturday to address the assembly.