Despite receiving significant military aid in hundreds of billions of dollars since the Russian invasion in 2022, Ukraine has developed the habit of rejecting US interests at the United Nations.
After years of skirmishes, Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. It launched a bloody, ongoing conflict that sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives.
The invasion also marked the beginning of a eruption of US military and government aid, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, with at least $175 billion allocated to date.
But that same year, Ukraine voted differently from the United States on 31% of the measures brought before the UN General Assembly. This indicates that the US was closely matched with Albania (27%), Iceland (30%) and Micronesia (22%).
As the war intensified in 2023, Ukraine’s record improved slightly. Voting differs for 24% of cases.
However, much of Ukraine’s actions directly oppose the US position in Powderkieg regions such as the Middle East.
A few days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, the United Nations passed the solution ES-10/21, which called for an “immediate and sustained” humanitarian ceasefire.
The United States led a bloc of 14 countries to oppose it. Ukraine abstained – and again did so in December 2023 with a follow-up resolution calling for a ceasefire.
In November 2023, the United Nations voted to request that the United States lift the trade embargo in Cuba. Ukraine abstained.
“I think it’s a shame to have a country that relies heavily on the massive people of unified people, as nation-states refuse to support our play at the United Nations and show that they are rather kotow rather than kotow. Jim Hanson, International Affairs Consultant at DC, told this post.
Within the country, Israel’s voting record was most closely matched with the United States, with over 90% of votes in both years.
Last year’s data is expected to be released by the end of March.
