Approved byUnited Nations General Assembly the resolution condemning Russia for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and calling for an immediate ceasefire from both parties involved in the hostilities. This is exactly a month after the start of the conflict, which began on February 24th. According to the main news outlets, 140 votes were in favor while 5 nations voted against, namely Russia, Syria, North Korea, Eritrea and Belarus. 38 the countries, including China, abstained.
This is the second time the UN has condemned it Russia blaming him for the conflict in Ukraine with an immediate call for a cessation of hostilities, and compared to last March 2 there was one less country to turn in favor. The UN document specifically speaks of “aggression against Ukraine,” and it is Russia that calls for “the immediate cessation of hostilities against Ukraine.”
At this point it should be remembered that the UN resolutions are not binding and are considered more as symbolic positions. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also reported numbers that speak of over a thousand civilians killed after the conflict began. Numbers that could be “significantly higher” according to the police department. The UN agency reports among the victims 15 men, 160 women, 14 girls and 28 boys, 48 children and 571 adults whose sex was not reported. “Most of the civilian deaths were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a large area of impact, including heavy artillery and rocket bombs, air and missile attacks,” the official press release reported by authorities said. Also according to the agency’s report, 1,650 civilians were injured during the conflict. Analyzing the data region by region, 311 civilian deaths are reported in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, while in the other regions, including the cities of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odessa, 724 civilians were killed and 793 were injured. Sumy, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr.
The votes for resolutionhence they increased from 141 to 140, and to be effective the document had to be endorsed by twothirds of the member countries.