The Security Council meeting offers a platform to both Ukraine’s president and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed the United Nations’ ineffectiveness in the face of Russia’s war on Kyiv in a tension-filled special session of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
Zelenskyy, dressed in his standard green military fatigues, urged the Security Council to suspend Russia’s veto power as a permanent member of the body in light of Russia’s actions during the war and bashed the U.N.’s failures to uphold its values amid the war. He added that “547 days of full-fledged Russian aggression means 547 reasons for changes in this chamber.”
At the start of Wednesday’s meeting, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, questioned why Zelenskyy was allowed to speak early on, predicting the whole event would be a “spectacle.” But Zelenskyy’s presence this year upped the diplomatic stakes — it’s his first in-person appearance at the General Assembly since the 2022 invasion. World leaders who spoke to voice support for Kyiv included Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Swiss President Alain Berset and Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo.
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