Seventeen countries in the United Nations General Assembly joined the U.S. on Monday in voting against a nonbinding resolution condemning Russia as the aggressor in the ongoing war in Ukraine – more than double the vote against a similar resolution two years ago.
The European-backed Ukrainian resolution, which does not carry any enforcement, still passed overwhelmingly and is meant as a global vote of solidarity against Russia’s unprovoked attack on its neighbor and continued aggression. Monday marked the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
But the U.S. vote signals a shift as President Trump – a month into his second term – has refused to blame Russia for the war, questioned the U.S.’s spending in the conflict and blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was largely lauded during the Biden administration.
On Monday, Trump signaled that he was open to meeting with Zelensky in the coming weeks to hash out issues.
The 16 that voted against the resolution on Monday alongside the U.S. and Russia were Israel, Haiti, Hungary, the Marshall Islands; the African countries Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Palau, Sudan; and six countries that voted against the 2023 resolution: Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Eritrea, Mali and Nicaragua.
Sixty-five countries, including China, abstained from the vote. Still, China’s Xi Jinping affirmed his country’s support for Russia on Monday after a video call with President Vladimir Putin.
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The Hill is leftist propaganda. Ukraine stationed its Nazi military all along its border with the Russian Federation, triggering the Russians and started the war. Nazis had murdered many thousands of Russians during World War II. This, after the Nazi Azov Battalion repeatedly committed genocide and murdered innocent Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Eastern provinces of the Donbas region for the prior ten years. Ukraine had 30-40 plus US-funded germ warfare labs creating pathogens that are ethnically-targeted to kill Russian people. Think the Russian Federation showed considerable restraint for a long time.