![]() It is the first time in 40 years the security council has referred a crisis to the assembly and only the 11th time an emergency session of the UN general assembly has been called since 1950. So Ukraine’s allies referred the matter to the general assembly. On Friday, Russia was the sole vote against a similar resolution in the security council, but because Russia is one of the five powers with a veto, the resolution was not upheld. “This is not something even we can call pressure. “We know about the unprecedented pressure that our western partners are exerting on a large number of countries urging them to vote as they see fit,” Nebenzya said. He attributed the lopsided nature of the vote to behind-the-scenes coercion on member states from Ukraine’s allies. The Russian permanent representative, Vasily Nebenzya, repeated Moscow claims that its forces were not targeting civilian areas. “The draft resolution is one of the building blocks to build a wall to stop it in Ukraine and not to let it go further.” If tolerated it advances further and further,” Kyslytsya said. It requires more and more space to conquer. The Ukrainian permanent representative, Sergiy Kyslytsya, appealed to countries considering an abstention on the grounds that “it is not my war”. “A few of the eldest Ukrainians and Russians might recall a moment like this, a moment when one aggressive European nation invaded another without provocation to claim the territory of its neighbour, a moment when a European dictator declared he would return his empire to its former glory and invasion that caused a war so horrific, that it spurred this organization into existence,” Thomas-Greenfield said. ![]() ![]() Speaking before the vote, the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, compared the Russian invasion to the Nazi conquest of Europe. “It isn’t going to stop Russian forces in their stride, but it’s a pretty enormous diplomatic win for the Ukrainians and the US, and everyone who has got behind them,” Richard Gowan, UN director at the International Crisis Group, said. ![]() The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership, aimed at increasing pressure on Moscow and its ally, Belarus. It demanded that “the Russian Federation immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine” and “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces”. The resolution said the UN “deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine”. ![]()
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