Ukraine has shown that we have the truth, strength, initiative and confidence in victory – Zelenskyi
Today, the events in New York as part of our country’s participation in the next session of the UN General Assembly are ending.
About this permission in your application President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
“It was a productive week for Ukraine. Many different activities – with my participation, with the participation of the First Lady of Ukraine, with the participation of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ukraine showed that not only the truth is with us, but also the strength is with us, the initiative is with us, confidence – it is we who have confidence in victory. The world is always sensitive to such things. Who is really strong, and who gives strength. Who really feels their strength, and who tries with all their might to hide weakness and insecurity,” Zelenskyi said.
At the General Assembly, Ukraine proposed a formula for peace, its way to the stabilization of international relations. And it was definitely heard by the world. The reaction to the speech of the President of Ukraine at the General Assembly is a positive result. Different countries equally want to hear specifics. Specifics on how to open the world, how to end this war. Ukraine presented its vision. Clear, logical, fair and realistic.
Volodymyr Zelenskyi spoke about five points that should help end the war.
The first: punishment of the aggressor.
The second: protection of life, that is, all the necessary assistance to our state in defense.
The third point: restoration of security and territorial integrity.
The fourth point: security guarantees.
Fifth: the determination to achieve all this together with us is the determination of the world situation.
“And what did Russia present? Again, the short-lived excuse, complaints and constant false propaganda, which the world has tired of for a long time, but Russian representatives still repeat it. There is an obvious contrast with us,” Zelensky emphasized.
The President of Ukraine took part in a special meeting on food security. This is one of the key topics of the years at the UN – it was the Russian aggression that made it so relevant. The world is looking for means to protect people from hunger and price crisis, and Ukraine has something to offer. We constantly support export products, we support the UN Food Program, we send grain as humanitarian aid to countries that need it – Ethiopia, Somalia.
“Also this week I took part in several important formats of communication with investors. The summit under the auspices of “Forbes” is a gathering of the world’s largest businessmen engaged in charity.
Video conference with representatives of BlackRock and Goldman Sachs – important global players. Clinton Global Initiative. Each such event adds attention to Ukraine, adds specific projects and advantages of our state, strengthens our stability, brings our victory closer,” – instead of the head of state.
The First Lady of Ukraine met in New York with Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister of Great Britain, and it was a very substantive meeting. From the first lady of France, Brigitte Macron. Together with Prime Minister Denys Shmigal, she met with Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General. In total, she held almost 20 meetings. At the invitation of Charles Michel, Olena Zelenska took part in the “Women in Conflicts” forum, which took place on the platform of the General Assembly. She presented a special charity fund – the Olena Zelenska Foundation, in order to accumulate even more support for Ukrainians, specifically for the humanitarian direction – primarily education, medicine, and the restoration of what was destroyed by Russian strikes. We are creating all the necessary institutional basis so that everyone in the world can help us as efficiently, quickly and reliably as possible,” said the President of Ukraine.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine holds dozens of high-level meetings. They were allocated to Zaporizhzhya NPP, expansion of defense, financial and sanction support, support in preparing our country for winter, support in reconstruction. During each meeting, it was emphasized that Russian terror must receive a clear global response – military, economic and legal, recognition by the Russian state as a sponsor of terrorism.
“We presented in New York our proposals on security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe and the world – a project developed by the Yermak-Rasmussen group. Denys Shmyhal also had meetings with the heads of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, other major financial and investment banks of the world,” the president said.
Zelenskyi also noted the negotiations with the Prime Minister of the United Nations of Japan, the country that will soon chair the Group of Seven and the Security Council. We discussed our priorities. Negotiations took place with the Prime Minister of Iraq – this is a new partner for Ukraine, an important partner. The Minister of Foreign Affairs holds more than 30 meetings, and most of them are with representatives of countries that are not our traditional partners.
“A very important event took place today in Izyum, Kharkiv region. Almost twenty diplomatic missions – the states of the Baltic and Eastern Europe, Germany, France, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, the Representation of Switzerland, Europe, the Ambassador – in their own opinion, left behind by the Russian occupiers. Broken houses, torture chambers, mass burials… The world knows full information about every crime of Russia in the temporarily occupied territories,” Zelenskyy promised.
He said that the world will react absolutely justly to pseudo-referendums – they will be unequivocally condemned, and to the criminal mobilization that the occupiers are trying to carry out now in Crimea and in other parts of Ukraine, which they still control. These are not just crimes against international law and the law of Ukraine. These are crimes against specific people, against the people.
“Now in the Crimea, in places of compact residence, the Crimeans are trying to find and mobilize as many men as possible. We already have proof of this. This is a deliberate attempt by Russia to destroy the Crimean Tatar people, this is a deliberate attempt by the aggressor state to take the lives of as many residents of the territory where Russian troops have entered as possible. I have a simple request to all our people who are in the temporarily occupied territory: do the main thing – save your lives and help us weaken and destroy the occupiers. By all means, get away from the Russian mobilization. Avoid subpoenas. Try to leave the free territory of Ukraine. But if you do end up in the Russian army, then sabotage any enemy activity, interfere with any Russian operations, give us all important information about the occupiers – their bases, headquarters, ammunition depots. And at the first opportunity, switch to our positions. Do everything to save life and help liberate Ukraine,” urged Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
Since the beginning of active actions in the east of our country in September, about 9 thousand square kilometers of territory, about 400 settlements have already been liberated. this tangible result was achieved thanks to the fact that our people in the temporarily occupied territory help us.
“Give our special services all the data about those who organize and carry out this farce with pseudo-referendums. Transmit all information about the Russian mobilization, about the Russian army in general. Help those in the occupied areas who need it: elderly people, single people, families with children. Ukraine will return to all its land, and we must keep as many of our people there as possible,” said the eye officer of Ukraine.
Today, the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, held a meeting on helping Ukrainians who were released from captivity. The head of the State Government, the head of the National Guard, the ministers of internal affairs, defense, health care, social policy, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the ombudsman were present. Our soldiers must receive all the necessary, real help, any assistance. The state knows how to be grateful to its heroes.
“Today, the Russian army created Iranian drones for strikes in Dnipropetrovsk region and Odesa. I have instructed the foreign state to react harshly to this fact. The world knows about every fact of collaboration with evil, and it will have corresponding consequences. A decision has already been made to grant accreditation to the Ambassador of Iran to Ukraine, as well as to significantly reduce the number of diplomatic staff at the Iranian Embassy,” the president said.
He reminded that six Iranian drones were shot down with our anti-aircraft guns of the “East” and “South” air teams. Another one was shot down by the anti-aircraft defense of the Naval Forces. moreover, the forces of the “Center” air command shot down a Russian attack aircraft and a rotorcraft in the south of Ukraine today.
“And I was just informed about the downing of another Iranian strike drone by anti-aircraft fighters of the “Southern” command,” the president concluded.
As Volodymyr Zelenskyi said earlier, every day Ukraine loses 50 defenders in the war against the Russian occupation. This is five times less than Russia loses.