{"id":83364,"date":"2025-09-24T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:41:08","slug":"zelenskiy-tells-un-that-russia-is-seeking-to-expand-fighting-beyond-ukraine-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83364\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy tells UN that Russia is seeking to expand fighting beyond Ukraine \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian<\/a> president Volodymyr Zelenskiy<\/a> urged world powers to help stop Russia<\/a>\u2019s war in his country in a speech to the United Nations<\/a> on Wednesday, warning of a dangerous arms race that he said the fighting was helping unleash.<\/p>\n

He called for global rules to curb the use of artificial intelligence in weapons while describing breakneck innovation in the military use of drones. He also accused Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> of seeking to expand his war beyond Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cStopping Russia now is cheaper than wondering who will be the first to create a simple drone carrying a nuclear warhead,\u201d he told the 193-member UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n

His comments came a day after he met US president Donald Trump<\/a> at the UN, where Mr Trump appeared to take a much tougher stance toward the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump said on Tuesday that Kyiv could retake all its occupied land from Russia in what would be an extraordinary battlefield reversal. He also endorsed the idea of shooting down Russian fighter jets that violate Nato<\/a> airspace.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected the central arguments for Mr Trump\u2019s rhetorical U-turn, saying it would provide the US with \u201creal information\u201d on what was happening on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as we understand, president Trump\u2019s statements were made after communicating with Zelenskiy and, apparently, under the influence of a vision set out by Zelenskiy. This vision contrasts sharply with our understanding of the current state of affairs,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n

\"VolodymyrVolodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, addresses the UN General Assembly in New York. Photograph: David Dee Delgado\/Bloomberg <\/p>\n

Later on Wednesday, Mr Zelenskiy told the UN General Assembly that the advent of artificial intelligence meant the arms race under way was the \u201cmost destructive\u201d in human history and voiced disappointment in what he said was the weakness of international law and co-operation.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has been locked in fighting against Russian forces for more than three and a half years since their full-scale invasion triggered the biggest conflict in Europe since the second World War.<\/p>\n

Western support has been vital for Kyiv, but the future of that assistance has been uncertain as Mr Trump has declined to impose powerful sanctions on Russia or provide fresh military assistance beyond selling arms.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has talked up the need for Europe to take on more of the burden of supporting Kyiv and, despite his sudden shift in language, there is no sign for now that the US president has stepped up actual support.<\/p>\n

US secretary of state Marco Rubio met Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in New York on Wednesday for talks that lasted about 50 minutes.<\/p>\n

Mr Rubio reiterated Mr Trump\u2019s call for Moscow to take meaningful steps to end the war in Ukraine, the US state department said.<\/p>\n

In a sign of how Kyiv is pitching its technology and experience from the war to shore up fragile relations with its foreign partners, Mr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had decided to begin exporting its weapons to allies.<\/p>\n

Mr Zelenskiy said the modern era meant that having powerful friends was essential, but that, \u201cIf a nation wants peace, it still has to work on weapons. It\u2019s sick \u2013 but that\u2019s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine has had tough restrictions on the export of its military products to prevent technology falling into the hands of its enemies, but it is now moving to relax them, in cases when its own stocks are covered.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to start this race from scratch. We\u2019re ready to share what has already proven itself,\u201d Mr Zelenskiy told the United Nations, referring to Ukrainian defence production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to make our modern weapons become your modern security. We have decided to open up arms export. And these are powerful systems tested in a real war when every international institution failed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He pointed to alleged airspace violations by Russian drones and fighter jets in Nato\u2019s Poland and Estonia as evidence that Mr Putin was testing new boundaries in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries,\u201d he said. \u201cPutin wants to continue this war by expanding it, and no one can feel safe right now.\u201d \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged world powers to help stop Russia\u2019s war in his country in a speech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,2264,2863,2267,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-83364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-ukraine-crisis","21":"tag-united-nations-un","22":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}