A US resolution calling for a “swift end” to the war in Ukraine passed the UN Security Council with the backing of Moscow and Beijing in a vote that dealt the latest blow to western unity during Donald Trump’s presidency.
France and the UK did not veto the measure, which made no mention of Russia’s aggression or Ukraine’s territorial integrity, but they abstained after failing in a last-ditch effort to delay the final vote.
The vote highlighted how the transatlantic alliance that has underpinned European security since the end of the second world war has begun to fray as the US president takes a transactional approach to foreign policy.
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