The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly condemned Russia's placarded annexation of four Ukrainian regions in eastern and southern Ukraine.
further than three- diggings of the 193- member General Assembly on October 12 suggested in favor of a resolution that called Moscow's move illegal.
Only Syria, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Belarus joined Russia in advancing against the resolution. Thirty- five countries, including China, India, South Africa, and Pakistan, abstained.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Twitter he was" thankful to 143 countries that supported major#UNGA resolution.( Russia's) an attempt at annexation is empty."
The resolution" condemns the association by the Russian Federation of so-called blackballs within the internationally honored borders of Ukraine" and" the tried illegal annexation" blazoned last month of four regions by President Vladimir Putin.
It calls on all UN and transnational agencies not to fete any changes blazoned by Russia to borders and demands that Moscow" incontinently and unconditionally rear" its opinions.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the vote showed transnational concinnity against Russia and repeated that Washington would noway fete the" sham" blackballs.
The vote" is an important memorial that the inviting maturity of nations stand with Ukraine, in defense of the UN Charter and in bent opposition to Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine and its people," Blinken said in a statement.
" With veritably many nations advancing with Russia moment, it's clear that transnational concinnity on this question is bent and support for Ukraine at the UN and further is unwavering," Blinken said.
Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia told the General Assembly ahead of the vote that the resolution was" politicized and openly instigative," adding that it" could destroy any and all sweats in favor of a political result to the extremity."
The General Assembly vote, which the United States and other Western countries had lobbied for, followed a prescription by Russia last month of an analogous resolution in the 15- member Security Council on the annexation of the Ukrainian home.
Moscow last month placarded its annexation of four incompletely enthralled regions in Ukraine-- Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya-- after carrying what it called blackballs. Ukraine and its abettors denounced the votes as illegal and said some choosers were constrained into sharing under the trouble of being shot.