India, Sept. 24 -- Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. He called for more economic sanctions against Russia, along the lines of the Russia sanctions act in the US, and slammed Russia's Vladimir Putin as the 'Patient Zero' of war.

Zelenskyy spoke hours after Russia's foreign minister Sergey Larvod spoke on Wednesday. Larvov said that Kremlin is willing to negotiate lasting peace in the region but won't pause the war, as it would give Ukraine and its allies time to gather weapons.

In his address, Zelenskyy described Putin as 'Patient Zero' of the disease of war. Patient Zero is a term used for the first infected patient of a major disease outbreak.

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