The United Nations General Assembly gathered for an emergency session on Monday just hours after Russia launched a deadly barrage of missiles across Ukraine, in a tense proxy battle between the two country’s delegates amid the ongoing war.
The special session was scheduled ahead of Russia’s Monday attack, but several countries used the meeting as a platform to voice outrage over the bombardment, which killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, according to Ukrainian officials.
Monday’s meeting comes as the body prepares for a vote later this week on Russia’s recent annexation of partially-occupied territories in Ukraine, including the Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
But the initial gathering offered clear insight into how the assembly is likely to vote, according to CNN, which reported that Ukraine’s UN ambassador was greeted with applause, while Russia’s ambassador faced silence.
On Monday, The General Assembly handily vetoed Russia’s attempt to conduct the annexation vote via secret ballot, according to the outlet. One-hundred-and-seven countries voted in favor of holding a public vote on the matter, while thirteen nations opted for a secret ballot, according to Reuters. Thirty-nine countries abstained and the remaining countries, including Russia and China, did not vote, the outlet reported.
Ukraine’s delegate, Sergiy Kyslytsya delivered emotional opening statements opposing Russia’s strikes, according to The New York Times.
“A trail of blood is left behind the Russian delegation when it enters the General Assembly,” he said, “and the hall is filled up with the smell of smoldering human flesh.”
Kyslytsya said Russia had already killed members of his family and expressed that “we see no end to that cruelty,” according to CNN.
Russia’s UN ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, meanwhile, suggested that other nations were ganging up on Moscow, the outlet reported, and continued to defend his country’s annexations.
Here is the list of who voted for and against. Plus those too scared to vote one way or the other.
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To save you the trouble of trawling through the list. Here are the shithole countries that voted no.
Belarus, Cuba, NK, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe. Syria and Tajikistan.
There’s your new axis, the Moskali and that group of zombies vs the entire civilized world.
The best part of all this, the Ukrainian guy was applauded, while the orc was given the silent treatment.
Yeah, all the world is against the poor misunderstood Putin regime….but they keep their veto while committing thousands of war crimes. No other country would be so lucky. The UN, Amnesty, OSCE and others should go down with Putin in the end, imo.
The usual shitlist. But Kazakhstan; WTF? They were supposed to be drifting into civilisation? What happened? Medvedev’s “you’re next” threat? A major disappointment.
Sudan and South Sudan hate each other, yet they both back putler? Fucking turds.
No aid must ever be sent to these nazi genocide-lover shitholes. In fact they must all join putlerstan and get the full Nork treatment.
Ukrainians must break their habit of holidaying in Egypt. Why go there? The Gypies love putler, their food is unfit even for street dogs; you spend most of your time in the shithouse and if you ever recover enough to go for a swim. Fucking Gypie sharks will bite your fucking leg off.
Ukraine must break off all trade and diplomatic relations with these fly-blown sewer countries.