The United Nations' leaders week in New York has turned its attention to Russia's failing illegal invasion of Ukraine.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has taken back territory liberating towns in its Southern and Eastern regions near the Russian border.
Now, President Putin has ordered the mobilisation of hundreds-of-thousands more troops, and renewed his threats of nuclear war, saying it's not a bluff.
RNZ's deputy political editor Craig McCulloch spoke to Charlotte Cook from New York.
