UN General Assembly live: Zelensky tells UN 'evil cannot be trusted' - BBC News
The Ukrainian president seeks support to repel Russia at a gathering of nearly 200 world leaders in New York.
President Zelensky was clear and brutal in his analysis.

Russia, he said, was weaponizing food shortages, energy, even nuclear power. It was committing genocide by abducting children from occupied parts of Ukraine. And he warned against “shady deals” to try to end the war on unfair terms.

So far, so straightforward.

But his key point was to warn the international community that the outcome of the war would affect them all. Russia’s goal, he said, was to turn Ukraine into “a weapon against you, against the rules based international order”.

The peace formula that he has been outlining for months was, he said, not just for Ukraine, but also the rest of the world.

So the pitch was clear and aimed squarely at countries - many of them in the Global South - which have thus far stayed on the side lines.

Western powers have been rushing around the UN trying to address those countries’ wider concerns about development issues and climate change.

But President Zelensky’s argument was just about security. If Ukraine wins, then the rest of the world will be better protected from suffering similar aggression.