Nigeria and 140 other nations voted against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanded the immediate withdrawal of troops from the Eastern European country, IgbereTV reports.
The decision was reached on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in a powerful rebuke of Moscow’s invasion.
After more than two days of extraordinary debate, which saw the Ukrainian ambassador accuse Russia of genocide, 141 out of 193 United Nations member states voted for the non-binding resolution.
“The world is rejecting Russia’s lies,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement later Wednesday. “Russia is responsible for the devastating abuses of human rights and the international humanitarian crisis that we are watching unfold in Ukraine in real-time.”
