KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine marked the anniversary of the Russian invasion on Friday with a present of defiance, as anti-Kremlin protests happened world wide and the US made a big dedication of latest weaponry to the nation.

Whilst he and his allies braced for a protracted warfare, Mr. Zelensky held a marathon information convention in Kyiv, the capital, to rally worldwide help, declaring that Ukraine and the allies supplying it with weapons and different assist would prevail “if we keep as one robust fist and our companions are united for our victory.”

“I’m sure there will probably be victory,” he mentioned. “I don’t assume, I do know, it can occur this 12 months. We’ve got all the pieces for it: motivation, perception, pals, diplomacy.”

China launched an overview for a peace settlement that the West dismissed as a imprecise nonstarter which may serve solely to cement into place Russian beneficial properties. The transfer got here as the US has been warning that Beijing would possibly ship weapons to Russia, which may dramatically alter the stability in a battle the place each side have run low on very important munitions.

Mr. Zelensky took care to not say something which may provoke Beijing, the highly effective Moscow ally that he hopes will stay largely on the sidelines of the warfare — persevering with his lengthy balancing act between condemning Russia whereas avoiding direct criticism of China. Requested about China on Friday, he mentioned little about its proposal, and merely expressed hope that the nation wouldn’t arm Russia.

On the prospects for peace talks, the warring nations continued to speak previous each other, every setting preconditions that the opposite would name capitulation. The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily A. Nebenzya, informed the Safety Council that his nation would solely negotiate on how its objectives in Ukraine could possibly be achieved.

Mr. Zelensky mentioned that Russia should halt its violence towards Ukraine and respect Ukrainian sovereignty earlier than there could possibly be any talks, and requested what negotiation was attainable with a nation that continued to kill civilians.

“These civilians didn’t have weapons of their palms, that they had their youngsters of their palms,” he mentioned.

Because the Safety Council met in New York to debate the warfare, protesters outdoors held up an effigy of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with bloodied palms. In Brussels, a whole bunch of individuals gathered in a chilly drizzle outdoors the European Parliament to unfurl a large Ukrainian flag, sing the Ukrainian nationwide anthem and chant “Slava Ukraini,” or “Glory to Ukraine.” World leaders issued statements deploring the invasion and noting {that a} 12 months of bloodshed and destruction had handed, for ever and ever.

In Buenos Aires, individuals gathered in entrance of the barricaded Russian embassy, taking part in Russian rock anthems on audio system and waving Ukrainian flags and bearing indicators with messages like “Russia With out Putin.”

“This warfare is a lie,” mentioned Aleksandr Fitasov, 35, one of many occasion organizers in Buenos Aires. “It’s simply to defend President Putin’s energy, so he stays president, and to fulfill his empire ambitions to recreate the good Russia, with all of the territories.”

Most of the protesters in Buenos Aires have been among the many hundreds of Russians who’ve fled their nation throughout the warfare, together with some with infants born to oldsters who hoped that international delivery certificates and passports would give their youngsters brighter futures. Russian opposition teams say they’ve organized occasions in 100 cities in 44 nations over the subsequent three days to protest the warfare.

Even in Russia, the place dissent has been criminalized, there have been scattered acts of protest on Friday, from the refined to the unmistakable — and no less than 20 arrests, in accordance with rights teams. In a village close to Saint Petersburg, Dmitri Skurikhin painted the names of cities Russia has ravaged on the facade of his retailer, and knelt outdoors with an indication saying “Forgive us, Ukraine” — acts that would get him 5 years in jail.

In a park in Moscow, a gentle trickle of individuals laid flowers at a statue of the Ukrainian poet Larysa Kosach-Kvitka, higher often called Lesya Ukrainka, whereas two cops watched from a parked squad automobile close by. “To ensure that Russia to turn into a free and democratic nation, it should lose this specific warfare, to ensure that the federal government to vary,” mentioned one of many flower bearers, Nikolai, an 18-year-old scholar whose full identify is being withheld for his security.

Usually, nevertheless, the temper in Moscow was one in all enterprise as typical, with many individuals saying that that they had given little thought to the warfare, or to Russia’s isolation.

There was little information on Friday from the battlefield, the place the warfare has already executed harm past comprehension: a whole bunch of hundreds killed or wounded, a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} in harm, cities and cities nearly utterly flattened, thousands and thousands of Ukrainians made homeless, and thousands and thousands extra struggling by way of winter with inadequate shelter, warmth or electrical energy — and even, in some circumstances, sufficient meals and water.

The warfare has reverberated across the globe, reshaping and strengthening alliances, and affecting all the pieces from grain costs to power coverage. However regardless that Russia has discovered itself extra remoted from the West and sanctions have broken the nation’s financial system, they’ve didn’t deliver it to its knees. China, India and others proceed to commerce with Moscow and supply it with diplomatic help.

All through the warfare, China has introduced itself as impartial, even because it has aligned extra intently with Russia. The proposal it launched on Friday requires peace talks and a cease-fire, although Russia nonetheless holds a big swath of Ukrainian territory in 4 provinces it claims to have annexed. It doesn’t name for withdrawal of Russian troops.

Beijing repeated factors it had made earlier than, with out naming any nation as perpetrator or sufferer, in language broad sufficient to be open to interpretation. The Chinese language assertion requires “respecting the sovereignty of all nations,” however doesn’t handle Mr. Putin’s insistence that Ukraine is just not an actual nation and merely a briefly estranged a part of Russia.

And it requires an finish to sanctions imposed with out approval from the Safety Council, the place Russia and China each maintain veto energy — a reference to the penalties the US, the European Union and Britain have imposed on Russia.

“Safety is just not an unique proper loved solely by some nations,” Wang Yi, China’s prime international coverage official, informed the Safety Council. “The safety of 1 nation shouldn’t be pursued on the expense of others.”

Mr. Nebenzya, the Russian ambassador, praised the Chinese language assertion, whereas on the similar assembly, Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, dismissed it with out mentioning it immediately.

“Members of this council mustn’t fall into the false equivalency of calling on each side to cease preventing, or calling on different nations to cease supporting Ukraine within the identify of peace,” he mentioned.

“On this warfare, there may be an aggressor and a sufferer,” he added.

The Biden administration on Friday introduced a brand new spherical of sanctions towards 200 Russian individuals and entities. It additionally introduced the discharge of $2 billion in further navy assist, elevating the U.S. whole to about $32 billion previously 12 months, though President Biden on Friday night time mentioned in an interview with ABC Information that he was “ruling out” sending Ukraine F-16 fighter jets for the second. The European Union, Britain and Canada additionally introduced new sanctions.

When Mr. Zelensky was requested at his information convention about the opportunity of China sending weapons to Russia, he at first ducked the query, however minutes later it was requested once more.

“I actually wish to consider that China is just not going to produce weapons to Russia,” he mentioned, including that it will elevate the chance of a world warfare. “I wish to consider China goes to facet with the concept of peace and equity.”

Mr. Zelensky was extra immediately crucial of Israel, a rustic with Western alliances that has provided restricted, quiet help for Ukraine whereas making an attempt to stay on good phrases with Russia.

“I actually need them to be greater than a mediator, however to decide on a facet,” he mentioned. “The Ukrainian facet.”

Sliding simply between Ukrainian and English, Mr. Zelensky demonstrated his penchant for courting Western media and their audiences. He spent nicely over two hours answering questions, typically at some size, acknowledging uncertainty on some fronts however insisting, “I’m assured we may have this victory, and hope it can occur this 12 months.”

He opened his information convention by thanking the information media and noting the journalists, international and home, who had died protecting the warfare.

“The truth that the entire world is just not forgetting about Ukraine, this permits us to stay robust to stay invincible,” he mentioned. He then stood for a minute of silence.

Marc Santora reported from Kyiv, Ukraine, and Richard Pérez-Peña from New York. Reporting was contributed by Farnaz Fassihi and Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura from New York, Michael D. Shear from Washington, Monika Pronczuk from Brussels, and Cassandra Vinograd, Matt Surman and Euan Ward from London.