India explains why it abstained from UN vote on Ukraine

Feb 24, 2023

New York, Feb 24 (ANI): India at the United Nation General Assembly called for global peace and security on February 24. As the day marks a year of the Russia-Ukraine disastrous war, Permanent Representative of India to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj stated why India abstained from the UN vote to Ukraine and also pointed out its help to earthquake-hit Turkey. She said, “We are providing humanitarian support to Ukraine and some of its neighbours in the global south under economic distress even as they stare at the accelerating costs of food, fuel and fertilizers which has been a consequential fall out of the ongoing conflict”