Zelenskyy calls for `strong sanctions ” on Russia before the United Nations General Assembly

Russia and Ukraine exchanged the accusations of deadly drone strikes on the civil zones of their country on Monday while the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy expected “a very intense week of diplomacy in the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where the Security Council was to discuss the war of more than three years.

At least seven Russian planes bombed the Ukrainian city south of Zaporizhzhia overnight, killing three people and injuring two others, according to the head of the regional administration Ivan Fedorov.

The attack started around 4:20 a.m. and lasted around 40 minutes, said Fedorov. Residential buildings, shopping centers, parking and “critical infrastructure” have been targeted, he said.

“None of the sites had nothing to do with military infrastructure,” said Fedorov.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that it had arrested 132 out of 141 strike drones and lure launched by Russian forces overnight.

In a position on social networks detailing night attacks and the response of Ukrainian emergency services, Zelenskyy said that “strong sanctions” and that political pressure was to be exerted on Russia, while world leaders are preparing to meet in New York.

“Measures must be taken so that murder and war do not become a routine,” said Zelenskyy. “Real and powerful pressures on Russia are necessary; new joint stages of everyone in the world which believes that international law must work again. Europe, the United States, the G7 and the G20 countries – all those who have a real influence on Russia.”

Zelenskyy tried to make an impulse to a peace effort, offering a cease-fire and a summit meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Moscow, however, challenged certain proposals, and the end of bloodshed does not seem closer.

Zelenskyy is expected to attend the high -level annual collection at the United Nations General Assembly, where he planned to recruit support for efforts to stop the invasion of Russia.

“The calendar already includes nearly two dozen meetings with leaders from different countries, from all regions of the world,” said Zelenskyy on Telegram late Sunday.

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He said he also planned to meet US President Donald Trump, whose peace willing after taking office in January produced no progress, even after welcoming Putin at a summit of August 15 in Alaska.

“It is essential that this week strengthens the determination of the world for a robust action – because without force, peace will not prevail,” said Zelenskyy.

He said that during last week, Russia had drawn more than 1,500 strike drones, 1,280 slides to slip and 50 missiles of various types in Ukraine. More than 132,000 foreign components were found in these weapons of dozens of countries, he said.

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Russia has made similar complaints. The Crimea Head occupied by Russia, the Crimean Peninsula occupied by Russia, Sergei Aksyonov, said three people had been killed and 16 others were injured late Sunday by Ukrainian drones who struck the popular foros vacation station.

The Russian Defense Ministry said there were no military facilities there.

In the Belgorod border region in Russia, three people were killed and 10 others were injured by Ukrainian drone attacks on Sunday, the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

The Defense Ministry said 114 Ukrainian drones had been killed early Monday during several Russian regions.

In addition, international concerns have recently shown that fighting could spread beyond the borders of Ukraine while European countries repressed Russia for what they said to be provocations. Incidents have included Russian drones landing on Polish soil and Russian fighter planes entering Estonian airspace.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics said on social networks that Russia was testing NATO’s political and military response to reducing Western support to Ukraine by convincing countries to redirect the resources to the defense of alliance countries.

Calbling how to react to Russia was not easy, Rinkevics said on Sunday. Russia was just enough not to cross a red line, but things could still be a spiral, he added.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia denied any violation of Estonian airspace by its planes, and the spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, rejected the demands of Estonia and NATO on Monday as “empty, unfounded and pursuing a cheeky policy of tensions and provoking confrontation”.