Zelenskyy urges sustained pressure on Russia in UN speech, calling Putin 'patient zero'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his UN General Assembly address Wednesday to call for sustained economic pressure on Russia to end the war.

• Zelenskyy told the General Assembly that Russia lost 248,000 soldiers over eight months and captured just over 1,000 square kilometres this year.
• He called Putin "patient zero" from whom the war spreads and urged leaders to limit trade with Russia.
• Zelenskyy urged China's Xi Jinping to use Beijing's influence to help push Moscow toward peace.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN Security Council that Moscow would negotiate a lasting peace but not merely "pause" the war.