{"id":37941,"date":"2023-09-19T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37941"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:52:05","slug":"russia-is-using-foodenergy-and-children-as-weapon-against-ukraine-zelenskyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/19\/russia-is-using-foodenergy-and-children-as-weapon-against-ukraine-zelenskyy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is using food,energy and children as weapon against Ukraine- Zelenskyy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> said Tuesday that Russia is \u201cweaponizing\u201d everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine<\/strong> \u2014 and he warned world leaders that the same could happen to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen hatred is weaponized against one nation, it never stops there,\u201d he said at the U.N. General Assembly\u2019s annual top-level meeting. \u201cThe goal of the present war against Ukraine is to turn our land, our people, our lives, our resources into weapons against you \u2014 against the international rules-based order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine has deepened major global supply disruptions caused by the pandemic, driving a huge spike in food and energy prices, jolting the global economy and increasing hardship in many developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decades-old energy supply channels to Europe from Russia, a major oil and gas producer, were halted or severely disrupted by the war due to sanctions, trade disputes, pipeline shutoffs and a major push by Western countries to find alternative sources. Both Russia and Ukraine also are major grain exporters, and Russia\u00a0withdrew this past summer from a deal<\/strong>\u00a0that allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy pointed to the food and fuel crunches, and he highlighted what Ukraine says were kidnappings of at least tens of thousands of children taken from Ukraine<\/strong> after Moscow\u2019s invasion: \u201cWhat will happen to them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose children in Russia are taught to hate Ukraine, and all ties with their families are broken. And this is clearly a genocide,\u201d Zelenskyy said in remarks that ran 15 minutes \u2014 the meeting\u2019s often-disregarded time limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Criminal Court<\/strong> issued an arrest warrant in March for Russian President Vladimir Putin and another official, accusing them<\/strong> of abducting children from Ukraine. Russian officials have denied any forced transfers of children, saying some Ukrainian youngsters are in foster care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia gets its chance to address the General Assembly on Saturday. Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky sat in Russia\u2019s seat during Zelenskyy\u2019s address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid he speak?\u201d Polyansky said with a wry smile when an Associated Press reporter asked about his reaction to the address. \u201cI didn\u2019t notice he was speaking. I was on my phone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy took to the world stage at a sensitive point in his country\u2019s campaign to maintain international support for its fight. Nearly 19 months after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion, Ukrainian forces are three months into a counteroffensive that has not gone as fast or as well as initially hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine and its allies cast the country\u2019s cause as a battle for the rule of international law, for the sovereignty of every country with a powerful and potentially expansionist neighbor, and for the stability of global food and energy supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow,\u201d U.S. President Joe Biden told the assembly Tuesday in his own speech. As he pledged support to Ukraine, there was a round of applause, including from Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia insists its war is justified, claiming that it is defending Russian speakers in Ukraine from a hostile government and protecting Russian interests against NATO encroachment, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war has raged longer and losses have been greater than Russia hoped, and the fighting has spurred widespread international condemnation against Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Kremlin also has influential friends that haven\u2019t joined the chorus of censure: China and India<\/strong>, for instance, have staked out neutral positions. So have many Middle Eastern<\/strong> and African nations<\/strong>. Many Latin American and Caribbean countries<\/a> prefer to focus world attention on other global issues, including climate change and conflict in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow is keen to display its global influence and its relationship with China and insists that it cannot be internationally isolated by the U.S. and its European allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Ukraine is concerned that backing from its allies may be ebbing. They have supplied billions of dollars\u2019 worth of arms but fear that their stockpiles are shrinking and that defense contractors are struggling to boost production lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours before Zelenskyy spoke at the U.N., allied defense leaders convened<\/strong> at a U.S. military base in Germany to discuss next steps. Some nations pledged further money and weapons. But a key sticking point is whether to supply longer-range missiles that Kyiv insists it needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Congress is weighing Biden\u2019s request<\/strong> to provide as much as $24 billion more in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, amid a growing partisan divide over spending on the conflict. Zelenskyy is scheduled to spend time Thursday on Capitol Hill and to meet with Biden<\/strong> at the White House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After landing Monday in New York, Zelenskyy suggested that the U.N. needs to answer for allowing his country\u2019s invader a seat at the tables of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there is still \u201ca place for Russian terrorists\u201d in the United Nations, \u201cit\u2019s a question to all the members of the United Nations,\u201d Zelenskyy said after visiting wounded Ukrainian service members at Staten Island University Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is a permanent, veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, which is entrusted with maintaining international peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy took the United Nations to task even before the war. In one memorable example, he lamented at the General Assembly in 2021 that the U.N. was \u201da retired superhero<\/strong> who\u2019s long forgotten how great they once were.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former comedian and actor who took office in 2019, Zelenskyy later became a wartime leader, wearing military fatigues, rallying citizens at home and appearing virtually and in person before numerous international bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Staten Island hospital, he awarded medals to military members who had lost limbs. With help from a New Jersey-based charity called Kind Deeds, 18 troops have been fitted for prostheses and are undergoing outpatient physical therapy, hospital leaders said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all will be waiting for you back home,\u201d Zelenskyy told those he met. \u201cWe absolutely need every one of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russia is \u201cweaponizing\u201d everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine \u2014 and he warned world leaders that the same could happen to them. \u201cWhen hatred is weaponized against one nation, it never stops there,\u201d he said at the U.N. General Assembly\u2019s annual top-level meeting. \u201cThe goal of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10618,1648,4899,6850,5522,6975,5178,6573,10387,9649,3189,7995,8924,7241,287,11555,3862,275,10767,6693,2961,10507,12175,10739,9309,5196,5494,6621,9505,12384,6738,8057,6496,11638,6225,6569,5491,5884,66,2264,6825,8251,5440,10954,11211,5252,2471,1152,5342,8029,10342,5721,10634,9833,5572,12985,5612,5340,12187,8999,12085,4802,2323,990,5441,11973,5485,5396,7039,3805,10390,71,3457,5217,5713,5655,5752,10041,7333,11906,10329,9178,5180,5555,7999,214,6555,694,11255,5251,5724,6571,2982,36,594,7932],"class_list":["post-37941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-actor","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-aid","tag-arms","tag-arrest","tag-biden","tag-black","tag-campaign","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-hill","tag-caribbean","tag-chance","tag-charity","tag-children","tag-citizens","tag-climate-change","tag-comedian","tag-conflict","tag-congress","tag-contractors","tag-court","tag-developing-countries","tag-display","tag-dollars","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-exporters","tag-families","tag-fear","tag-food","tag-forced","tag-friends","tag-fuel","tag-gas","tag-genocide","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-hospital","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-india","tag-international","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-invasion","tag-joe-biden","tag-kremlin","tag-kyiv","tag-land","tag-law","tag-losses","tag-lost","tag-meeting","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-money","tag-moscow","tag-n","tag-naked","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-oil","tag-one","tag-pandemic","tag-peace","tag-phone","tag-president","tag-prices","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-security-council","tag-speech","tag-summer","tag-the-general","tag-trade","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-united-nations","tag-university","tag-veto","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-weapons","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zelenskyy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37942,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37941\/revisions\/37942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}