Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | One year of Russia-Ukraine war | What are endgame scenarios?
The Hindu
In this episode of Worldview, we discuss India’s absention at the UNGA as the world marks one year of the war in Ukraine. We also look at how the war has changed the global political and economic landscape.
This week counts one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered attacks across Ukraine, actions that have triggered the biggest military faceoff in Europe since the second world war and has changed the global political and economic landscape
- In Moscow this week, President Putin defended his actions
- In Kyiv Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was joined by US President Joseph Biden in a message of solidarity.
- And in New York, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution where most of the players voted exactly as they did a year ago- 141 or nearly 80 % of the hall voted for the resolution, and India, as it has done for at least 20 votes in the past year- at the UNGA, UNSC, IAEA, HRC, decided to abstain.
What did this resolution say:
1. Calling for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace
2. Deploring human rights and humanitarian consequences of aggression by Russia
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