Zelenskyy at UN calls for Putin to be stopped: Key statements

Main statements in brief:

• From January to August, the Russian army lost 248,000 personnel killed and seriously wounded. Twenty-one countries in the world have a smaller population than the number of Russians lost in eight months.
• Russia managed to capture 1,000 square kilometers of our land this year, and we have already liberated a significant part of these territories.
• North Korea sent its troops to Russia to support its weak spots. North Korea suffered terrible losses. Recently, we sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Korea.
• Putin recently promised Trump’s representatives that he would capture our Donetsk region. He said he needed another couple of months. Apparently, this is the 17th or 18th time in five years that he has made this promise.
• Putin wants more of our cities — Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv and others. He is patient zero, from whom this contagion is spreading, and wherever it spreads, it brings only pain, instability, new risks and new crises. We need to take away the space he has to spread this contagion.
• It is not gasoline or diesel, not fuel, not factories or ports — our target is Russia’s ability to finance the war. Russian finances and industry need to be stopped. Our weapons are working toward this goal.
• Some people in the world say: ease sanctions against Russian oligarchs. This will make life more comfortable for wealthy Russians. It will give Putin more time to send poor people into the kill zone.
• Russia planned a major operation on the front this summer, and all of them failed miserably. Russian cruise missiles did not work as Putin had planned.
• It is very difficult for us to deal with Russian ballistic missiles and jet drones right now. Since the beginning of this year, Russia has already used more than 2,100 missiles of various types against us, more than 950 of them ballistic.
• The Russian forces launch jet drones every hour. Our soldiers have successfully tested four new interceptors for jet drones, and we are developing their production.
• Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very difficult for us. But in response, we will have no choice but to make it painful for Russia as well. De-escalation steps are important ahead of winter. We need diplomacy and we need strength.
• Unfortunately, we did not have an opportunity to speak directly with the leader of China, who is in the United States today, but not here. He is someone who can influence Russia. We want and believe that the world can influence this war.