Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has urged world leaders not to give in to Russia’s “nuclear blackmail” and has appealed to Australia for help in a critical UN vote next week.
Addressing the Sydney-based Lowy Institute by video link on Thursday evening, Zelenskiy revealed Australia was offering heavy arms to Ukraine in its next package of military support to defend against Russia’s invasion.
The UN general assembly will consider a resolution condemning Russia’s purported annexation of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions, but Russian officials are lobbying for a secret vote so countries don’t have to make their positions public.
Although I have generally stopped writing articles about Jewish heroes in our time, I felt that it was time to include this new one, whose actions have been more and more heroic in his country’s struggle for existence against a more and more outlaw enemy led by the deranged Putin. In view of the threats of nuclear war, we all need Zelenskiy to succeed!
