{"id":455583,"date":"2025-09-27T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:50:12","slug":"russia-addresses-world-leaders-at-un-three-years-into-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455583\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia addresses world leaders at UN three years into Ukraine invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 Russia gets the microphone at the U.N. world leaders\u2019 meeting Saturday, three years into an invasion of Ukraine that the international community has broadly deplored<\/a> and a that powerful member newly says Ukraine can repel. <\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov<\/a> is due to give his country\u2019s address at the General Assembly<\/a>, four days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Ukraine can win back all the territory it has lost to Russia. It was a notable tone shift<\/a> from a U.S. leader who had previously suggested Ukraine would need to make some concessions<\/a> and could never reclaim all the areas Russia has occupied since seizing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and launching a full-scale invasion in 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Just three weeks earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country and the U.S. had a \u201cmutual understanding\u201d<\/a> and that Trump\u2019s administration \u201cis listening to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s new view came after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of General Assembly Tuesday \u2014 seven months after a televised blow-up<\/a> between the two in the Oval Office. This time, the doors were closed, and the tenor was evidently different \u2014 \u201ca good meeting,\u201d as Zelenskyy described it in his assembly speech the next day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the fourth year in a row<\/a>, Zelenskyy appealed to the gathering of presidents, prime ministers and other top officials to get Russia out of his country \u2014 and warned that inaction would put other countries at risk. <\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine is only the first,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Unauthorized flights into NATO\u2019s airspace<\/a> \u2014 intrusions blamed on Russia \u2014 have raised alarm around Europe in recent weeks, particularly after NATO jets downed drones over Poland<\/a> and Estonia said Russian fighter jets flew into its territory and lingered for 12 minutes<\/a>. Russia denied that its planes entered Estonian airspace and said the drones didn\u2019t target Poland, with Moscow\u2019s ally Belarus maintaining that Ukrainian signal-jamming sent the devices off-course. <\/p>\n

But European leaders see the incidents as intentional, provocative moves<\/a> meant to rattle NATO and to suss how the alliance will respond. <\/p>\n

Russia has offered various explanations<\/a> for the Ukraine war, among them assuring its own security after NATO expanded eastward over the years. <\/p>\n

Lavrov\u2019s address to the General Assembly last year was a bitter swipe at the West<\/a>, whetted with a reference to \u201cthe senselessness and the danger of the very idea of trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power, which is what Russia is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 Russia gets the microphone at the U.N. world leaders\u2019 meeting Saturday, three years into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[12019,32,2000,299,4179,56247,285,332,10243,657,7662,8406,137505,5213,333,2601,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-455583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organization","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-sergey-lavrov","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-ukraine-government","19":"tag-united-nations","20":"tag-united-nations-general-assembly","21":"tag-united-states-government","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","24":"tag-war-and-unrest","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115276822982512129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}