Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the 78th United Nations Normal Meeting at UN headquarters in New York Metropolis on September 19, 2023.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as on Ukraine’s allies to cease “watching” and take motion to deal with the presence of North Korean troops in Russia earlier than they begin confronting his nation in fight.
Zelenskyy, in a video posted on Telegram, mentioned North Korea had made progress in its army functionality, missile deployment and weapons manufacturing and “now sadly they may study fashionable warfare.”
“The primary hundreds of troopers from North Korea are close to the Ukrainian border. Ukrainians shall be pressured to defend themselves in opposition to them,” he mentioned. “And the world will watch once more.”
Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine had pinpointed each location the place North Korean troopers have been posted in Russia. However Kyiv’s Western allies, he mentioned, had not equipped the long-range weapons wanted to strike them.
“However as an alternative of such vital long-range functionality, America watches, Britain watches, Germany watches…,” he mentioned.
“Everybody on the planet who really desires the Russian warfare in opposition to Ukraine to not increase….should not simply watch. They need to act. Phrases concerning the inadmissibility of escalation and growth of warfare have to be matched with actions.”
The slick three-minute video interspersed his feedback with photos of North Korea’s troopers and missile launches in addition to photos of the warfare and the United Nations.
The video follows an interview with South Korea’s KBS tv on Thursday by which Zelenskyy blasted what he described as his allies’ “zero” response to Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned on Thursday there have been 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia, together with as many as 8,000 within the southern Kursk area the place Ukrainian forces launched an incursion in August.
North Korean Overseas Minister Choe Son Hui informed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Friday that his nation would again Russia till it achieved victory within the Ukraine warfare.
