{"id":95618,"date":"2025-09-24T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95618"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:26:12","slug":"russia-will-expand-aggression-beyond-ukraine-if-not-stopped-zelensky-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95618","title":{"rendered":"Russia will expand aggression beyond Ukraine if not stopped, Zelensky warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vladimir Putin \u201cwill keep driving the war forward wider and deeper\u201d if he is not stopped, Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky has warned.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the UN\u2019s General Assembly in New York, Zelensky said more countries would be met with Russian aggression unless allies displayed a united front and ramped up support.<\/p>\n

He said all nations were threatened by a global arms race, as military technology advances, adding that \u201cweapons decide who survives\u201d and called for global rules on AI.<\/p>\n

His comments come after US President Donald Trump shifted his position on the Russia-Ukraine war, saying for the first time that Ukraine could win back all of its land.<\/p>\n

Zelensky criticised international institutions, suggesting they are \u201ctoo weak\u201d to offer Ukraine safety guarantees, adding \u2013 in apparent reference to Nato \u2013 that being part of a long-standing military alliance \u201cdoesn\u2019t automatically mean you are safe\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now living through the most destructive arms race in human history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He argued that \u201cstopping Russia now\u201d was cheaper than \u201cwondering who will be the first to create a simple drone carrying a nuclear warhead\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zelensky called for international rules around AI and its role in weaponry, and said the development of autonomous drones and unmanned planes represented a far greater risk than traditional warfare.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian leader also warned that Europe cannot afford to lose Moldova \u2013 which lies between Ukraine and EU-member Romania \u2013 to Russian influence. He said the West had missed a chance to save Georgia and Belarus from Putin\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n

On Thursday the pro-EU president of Moldova, Maia Sandu,\u00a0accused the Kremlin\u00a0of \u201cpouring hundreds of millions of euros\u201d into Moldova in an attempt to instigate violence and spread fear.<\/p>\n

Voters in the former Soviet republic go to the polls on Sunday, amid what a BBC investigation found to be a barrage of disinformation spread by a\u00a0network with ties to Moscow.<\/p>\n

Last week, Estonia and Poland requested a consultation with other Nato members after Russia violated its airspace in separate incidents. Romania, another Nato member, also said Russian drones breached its airspace.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, following his speech to the UN, Trump said Nato nations should shoot down Russian planes breaching their airspace, following the recent incursions by Russian fighter jets and drones.<\/p>\n

Zelensky praised Donald Trump and said he had a \u201cgood meeting\u201d with the US president.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, he told reporters he understood the US was willing to give Ukraine security guarantees after the war is finished.<\/p>\n

Pressed on what this would look like, he said he did not have specific details but broached the possibility of more weapons, air defences and drones.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s suggestion on Tuesday that Kyiv could win, with support from the EU and Nato, marked an apparent U-turn after his previous comments that Ukraine would have to accept \u201cland swaps\u201d as a condition of peace.<\/p>\n

The US president also described Russia as a\u00a0\u201cpaper tiger\u201d\u00a0that had been \u201cfighting aimlessly in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov responded: \u201cRussia is in no way a tiger. It\u2019s more associated with a bear. And there is no such thing as a paper bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peskov told reporters the US president had made the comments \u201capparently under the influence of the vision put forward by Zelensky\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vision is in absolute contrast with our understanding of the current state of affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday, marking the highest-level US encounter with Russia since Trump invited Putin to Alaska last month.<\/p>\n

According to a brief statement from the US State Department, Rubio reiterated Trump\u2019s \u201ccall for the killing to stop and the need for Moscow to take meaningful steps toward a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin did not immediately comment on the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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