Major fire at warehouse in Lviv as president meets wounded soldiers in New York
In his first in-person visit to the 193-member world body since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of his country, Mr Zelenskiy is due to speak to the annual high-level UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
“For us it’s very important that all our words, all our messages will be heard by our partners,” Mr Zelenskiy told reporters during a visit to Staten Island University Hospital, where Ukrainian soldiers have been treated for amputations. “And if in the United Nations still ... there is a place for Russian terrorists, the question not to me I think, it's a question to all the members of the United Nations,” he said.
Mr Zelenskiy travelled straight to the hospital from the airport after landing in New York on Monday. He honoured the wounded soldiers and some hospital staff with medals. Mr Zelenskiy also said he would attend a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Wednesday, but was unclear on whether he would remain seated at the 15-member body’s horseshoe-shaped table if Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov speaks.Russian UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia last week said the council meeting, convened by Albania as the president for September, would simply be a “big show.”
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