Ukraine’s President told the U.N. General Assembly that Russia is weaponizing food, energy and children in its war against Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy told world leaders that the children need to be returned home. He says they know the names of tens of thousands of children and have evidence of hundreds of thousands kidnapped by Russia in occupied territories of Ukraine who were later deported. Zelensky asked, “What will happen with them? What will happen to them? Those children in Russia are taught to hate Ukraine and all ties with their family are broken, and this is clearly a genocide.”

In March of this year, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of children and the unlawful transfer from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. But, Zelenskyy notes that time marches on and the war continues. He says weaponization must be restrained and war crimes punished.

He also spoke about Ukraine giving up its nuclear arsenal back in the 199s, once it had become an independent state. The arsenal was inherited from previously being one of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. Zelenskyy says Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons and the world decided Russia should become a keeper of nuclear power. He believes Russia deserved nuclear disarmament the most back then and deserves it now. “Terrorists have no right to hold nuclear weapons. No right.”

Zelenskyy also suggests the United Nations needs to answer for allowing Russia to sit at its table as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.