Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution deploring its military operation in Ukraine. The United States, the United Kingdom, France and Brazil were among the countries that supported the resolution. China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstained from voting.
Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya described the resolution as "anti-Russian and anti-Ukrainian." The document is anti-Ukrainian because it "is trying to save and consolidate in Ukraine the system of power that led this country to a tragedy that has been going on for at least eight years now," he explained.
