Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to world leaders gathered at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to act together against Russia’s invasion and said Moscow must be pushed back so the world can turn to solving pressing global challenges. Zelenskiy drew applause as he took his place at the lectern at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, making his first personal appearance at the annual meeting since Russia’s invasion of his country in 2022.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that countries like Russia would create a “world of insecurity” for everyone after invading Ukraine. which he said “has ushered in the next phase of our lives: historic human rights violations, families torn apart, children traumatized, hopes and dreams shattered.”
US President Joe Biden said this week’s UN meeting was “overshadowed by the shadow of war”. which he described as an “illegal war of conquest without provocation by Russia” against Ukraine. “No nation wants the war to end more than Ukraine,” he said, reiterating U.S. support for Kiev and its efforts to reach “a diplomatic solution for a just and lasting peace.”
Ukrainian children who were illegally deported to Russia have arrived in Belarus. The 48 children come from the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia, which Moscow claims to have annexed. Officials in Belarus have previously denied allegations that the country was involved in the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine, but on Tuesday Belta reported that the deportation of the children from Ukraine was organized by a Belarusian charity – backed by President Alexander Lukashenko .
Ukraine called on three neighboring countries in the European Union on Tuesday to enter into “constructive dialogue” to end a dispute over agricultural trade. and agreed to a so-called “compromise scenario”. Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announced restrictions on imports from Ukraine on Friday to protect farmers from a surge in grain and food imports from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said air defense would continue to be Ukraine’s “greatest need” in the war against Russia. In his concluding remarks after a meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group, Secretary Austin said: “Air defense will continue to be Ukraine’s greatest need to protect its airspace, its civilians and cities, and innocent people far from the battlefield.”
Britain will deliver “tens of thousands” more artillery shells to Ukraine this year, The government’s defense ministry announced this on Tuesday.
A rocket attack that hit a crowded market in the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka earlier this month, killing at least 17 civilians, may have been caused by a misdirected missile fired by Ukraine. The New York Times reported. Another 32 people were injured on September 6 when the rocket hit 12 miles (20 km) from the front line in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. A few hours later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of being responsible for the attack.
Two people were killed in Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight, according to local authorities in Lviv and Kherson. Russia attacked three industrial warehouses in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in a drone strike early Tuesday, causing a major fire and killing at least one person.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said the body of a man who worked in one of the warehouses was found among the rubble. Portal reports that Sadovyi said the warehouses would store windows, household chemicals and humanitarian aid.
Russian forces also shelled the southern city of Kherson, killing a police officer and wounding two civilians on a trolleybus. said the head of the city’s military administration.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired a total of 30 drones and an Iskander ballistic missile in attacks on Ukraine overnight. and that 27 of the drones were shot down.
At least three people were killed in a Russian attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kupyansk on Tuesday. said a regional official. “Today the enemy attacked the city of Kupiansk with a guided air bomb,” Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehubov reported on the messaging app Telegram, Portal reported.
Ukraine told the UN’s top court in The Hague on Tuesday that Russia had justified the war against Ukraine with “a terrible lie,” claiming that Moscow’s invasion was intended to stop an alleged genocide. “The international community has adopted the Genocide Convention for protection. “Russia invokes the Genocide Convention to destroy,” Ukraine’s representative Anton Korynevych told the judges.