Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world powers on Wednesday to work together to stop Russia’s war in his country, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of seeking to expand the fighting beyond Ukraine.
He said in a speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly that the war had helped unleash the most destructive arms race in history and that Ukraine was moving to open up the export of its weapons to allies.
“The facts are simple, stopping this war … is cheaper than building underground kindergartens or massive bunkers for critical infrastructure later,” he said.
He pointed to alleged airspace violations by Russian drones and fighter jets in Nato’s Poland and Estonia as evidence that Putin was testing new boundaries in the war in Ukraine.
“Now Russian drones are already flying across Europe,…