Moscow exercised its veto to prevent the UN Security Council from approving a draught resolution denouncing Russia’s annexation of four areas of Ukraine.
Specifically, the draught resolution created by the United States and Albania urged all nations and other organisations to reject the annexation as untrue and called on them to do so.
As soon as Moscow’s representative to the council, Vasily Nebenzia, realised that the West did not want peace in Ukraine, Moscow vetoed the resolution.
As she phrased it, he thought that everyone should recognise the right to self-determination of the peoples of eastern Ukraine.
He continued by saying that a Security Council resolution denouncing one of its members had never been seen before.
However, Linda Thomas Greenfield, Washington’s representative to the UN, believed that Russia’s acquisition of Ukrainian areas was extremely risky.
She continued by saying that everyone should protest the Russian choice.
She also emphasised that Ukrainian war leader Vladimir Putin made a mistake in his calculations.
She also believed that Moscow faked the referendum results in order to conquer the areas of Ukraine, arguing that this action violates international security.
These developments followed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement on Friday morning that four Ukrainian regions—Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson—had been formally annexed into his nation. Putin emphasised that this decision had finally been made.
Additionally, the Kremlin’s ruler pledged to reconstruct those cities for the citizens’ peace and safety. He made a point of saying that those people were now Russian citizens.
At the same time, he signalled that he was willing to put an end to the fighting and engage in talks with Kyiv.
Following the lengthy address by the Russian president, the four Moscow-loyal regional leaders signed the annexation orders, annexing more than 15% of Ukrainian territory.
The larger Donbass region in eastern Ukraine is made up of the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, which have been torn apart by fighting since separatists there proclaimed independence in 2014.
In addition to Lugansk and Donetsk, Russia also gained possession of all of Kherson and portions of Zaporizhia during a ceremony staged in the Kremlin, which prompted anger around the world and total Western rejection.
Russia blocks the Security Council from denouncing the veto.
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