“We did not cause this war. We had no choice but to defend ourselves. Ukraine wants peace, Europe wants peace. The world wants peace. There is only one who wants war“. The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, expresses himself in this way in the intervention on video link with the UN General Assembly. Zelensky calls for” punishment for the aggressors, until the aggression ends. Sanctions are part of the formula for achieving peace “and urges the establishment of a” special court “to judge the crimes committed by Russia in the war triggered by the invasion ordered by Vladimir Putin in February.
“There is only one entity, among the UN member states, that could say now – if it were able to interrupt my speech – that it is happy for this war, for its war”.
“Ukraine has shown strength on the battlefieldno one can blame us for weakness or inability to fight for our independence, the result will be the guarantee of a stable peace “, emphasizes the Ukrainian president.” It was not us who caused this war – he reiterates – there were 88 talks to avoid war, but Russia instead of stopping this crime of aggression has turned it into a full-scale invasion. “
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