JK News Today
October 31
Jammu : India on Wednesday abstained from voting in the United Nations General Assembly draft resolution on “illegal” Russian annexation of Ukrainian regions. India was one of the 35 members of the 143-member UNGA who abstained from voting. The resolution comes days after Russia vetoed a similar proposal in Security Council, in which too India had abstained.
Moscow in September proclaimed its annexation of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — after staging what it called referendums. Ukraine and allies have denounced the votes as illegal and coercive.
In other news, air raid sirens sounded across parts of Ukraine for a third day on Wednesday. At least seven people were killed and eight injured in a Russian strike on a crowded market in the frontline town of Avdiivka, the governor of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region said. There were reports of some shelling elsewhere, but no sign of the countrywide strikes of the previous two days.
