Watch the president deliver his second address to the U.N. General Assembly, live. Speeches begin at 9 a.m. ET, and Biden is seventh in line to speak.
close to a nuclear power plant in the country's south. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to address the General Assembly by video on Wednesday. Putin is not attending the gathering.of hundreds of thousands of additional Russian troops, and Russia is moving ahead with plans to annex large portions of disputed Ukrainian territory through the use of referendums that the U.S. and Ukraine quickly dismissed as illegitimate. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
"These sham referenda are an affront to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that are at heart of the UN Charter," the spokesman continued."Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield reiterated that the United States will not recognize any attempt by Russia to claim annexation of Ukraine's sovereign territory."
In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. is"going to continue to do what we have been doing over the course of the past six months. We are going to condemn Russia. We're going to isolate Russia. It will not be business as usual for the Russians here in New York for the 77th UNGA."
Sullivan said the president will also"make significant new announcements about the U.S. government's investments to address global food insecurity and he'll lay out in detail how the U.S. has restored its global leadership and the integrity of its word on the world stage." The president's address comes a day later than originally planned, due to his traveling to the United Kingdom for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. At the U.N., Mr. Biden will hold bilateral meetings with leaders of allied nations, including his first meeting with the newly installed U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss. , his first as president, came as the U.S. was completing its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.