Ukraine War , India abstains in UN vote on Russian referendums

India abstained while Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution tabled by the US and Albania that would have condemned Moscow's “illegal referenda” and declared its annexation of four Ukrainian territories as invalid, with New Delhi citing the "totality of the evolving situation” as the reason for its abstention.

The 15-nation UN Security Council voted on Friday on the draft resolution on “Illegal So-Called Referenda in Ukraine”, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a ceremony in the Kremlin, signed treaties to annex the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.