Zelenskyy to G20 participants: Time to end Russia’s destructive war

In his video address to the G20 summit in Bali, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that it was time to stop Russia’s "destructive" war.

Source: AFP; The Guardian; President Zelenskyy’s address

Quote from Zelenskyy: "I am convinced now is the time when the Russian destructive war must and can be stopped."

Details: In his address, Zelenskyy explained why a Minsk-3 agreement was impossible. "We will not allow Russia to wait it out, build up its forces, and then start a new series of terror and global destabilization," he said. [The Minsk-1 and Minsk-2 agreements attempted to secure a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russian forces in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the east of Ukraine - ed.]

Referring to Russia’s ongoing hostilities at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, Zelenskyy said that no one has a right to blackmail the world with a nuclear disaster and that Russia has turned the ZNPP into a "radioactive bomb that can explode at any moment."

Zelenskyy additionally said that Ukraine and Russia ought to hold an "all for all" prisoner exchange.

Previously:

• The G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia started in the early hours of 15 November. Russian President Vladimir Putin will not address the summit participants, even via video address.
• The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine [the Ukrainian Parliament – ed.] registered a draft resolution asking the G20 countries to exclude the Russian Federation from this influential group.
• US President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine during their meeting in Bali on 14 November.

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