Russian foreign minister lambastes the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat is lashing out at the U.S. and the West as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure. But Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov didn’t directly discuss his country’s war in Ukraine in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. For a second year in a row, the General Assembly meeting is taking place with no end to the war in sight. In a speech Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of “weaponizing” food, energy and even children against Ukraine and “the international rules-based order” at large.