Egypt voted with the UN General Assembly resolution condemning the Russian annexation of Ukrainian regions, as the UN General Assembly adopted a draft resolution on Wednesday condemning the Russian annexation of four Ukrainian regions .
The list of voting countries highlights Egypt’s support for the resolution
Western countries have exerted intense pressure behind the scenes to pass a UN resolution condemning Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four Ukrainian regions and calling on Moscow to immediately reverse its actions..
The General Assembly, made up of 193 members, voted in favor of the resolution after diplomats finished defining their country’s positions. On Monday, assembly members began discussions on resuming a special emergency session on Ukraine.
On 5 October, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially signed a decree on the annexation of the four Ukrainian regions.
Putin announced that his country has annexed 4 regions in Ukraine where the Kremlin has organized referendums that ended with great support for the annexation, while America and Western countries have described the referendums as “fiction” organized under the threat of weapons, pointing out that he did not recognize them..
Since last February, the Russian president has launched a military operation in Ukraine, which he says aims to remove NATO influence from his country, but Russia has suffered some losses over the past month, which necessitated some measures such as referendums and partial military mobilization.
Earlier, the governor of the “Donetsk” region of eastern Ukraine, Pavlo Kirilenko, announced on Wednesday that at least seven people were killed and nine more were injured in a Russian bombing that targeted a crowded market. in the city of Avdiivka..
“Russian forces bombed the central market, which was packed with pilgrims”, quoted Kirilenko from the Ukrainian news agency “Ukrinform”, stressing that “there is no military logic for such an attack”.
