Heading for UN, Ukraine’s president questions why Russia still has a place there

By JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Ukraine’s leader and Russia’s top diplomat could cross paths at the United Nations this week. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested Monday that the world body needs to answer for allowing his country’s invader a seat at the tables of power. Zelenskyy is due to address world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, then speak Wednesday at a U.N. Security Council meeting about Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also is expected at the council meeting. Zelenskyy says that if there’s still a place for Russia in the U.N., that’s “a question to all the members.” He spoke while visiting injured Ukrainian military members at New York’s Staten Island University Hospital.