Remove Russia from the West. That is the path that the great powers such as Europe or the United States have decided to follow., banked by another large number of countries. Since the beginning of Russia’s offensive on Ukraine, most nations have sided with Ukraine.
Some countries are still silent and many others publicly support Russia. The most representative way that countries have had to show their position against Russia’s offensive on Ukraine was the UN General Assembly on March 2. Only five countries voted against condemning Russia: Belarus, Eritrea, Russia, North Korea and Russia itself. Another 35 decided to abstain from their vote, and 141 voted to condemn the Kremlin moves. So how is the world positioning itself?
Countries that support Russia
Belarusally of Russia. Many of the Russian troops entering Ukraine do so through the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Aleksandr Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, is one of Vladimir Putin’s greatest allies
Eritrea decided to position himself on the Russian side in the UN General Assembly. Although many African countries decided to abstain in the vote, Eritrea was the only one on the continent that supported Russia, largely because they share a common enemy: the United States.
North Korea. Pyongyang made it clear: “The fundamental cause of the crisis in Ukraine lies entirely in the hegemonic policy of the United States and the West, which indulge in arrogance and arbitrariness towards other countries.” Russia has your support.
Syria. Russia’s involvement in the war in Syria in September 2015 on the side of Bashar al-Assad was a turning point that has allowed the Syrian president to regain much of the ground lost to the rebels. Syria and Russia maintain good relations, and we could even say that Syria is somewhat dependent on Russia, so it does not question Moscow on such an important issue as this.
Countries supporting Ukraine
Most of the NATO countries and the European Union: United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Grace, Bulgaria, Albania , North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Montenegro. For their part, Austria, Finland, Ireland and Austria are not members of NATO, but they are members of the EU. Also Switzerland, a historically neutral country, has joined the sanctions against Russia.
Countries that are not defined
Most countries condemned Russia’s offensive on Ukraine. But 35 nations decided, for now, to remain silent.. That at least was his position in the vote of the UN General Assembly.
Countries that refrained from condemning Russia at the UN General Assembly
- Algeria
- angola
- Armenia
- Bangladeshi
- bolivia
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- China
- congo
- Cuba
- The Savior
- Equatorial Guinea
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Pakistan
- Senegal
- South Africa
- South
- South Sudan
- Tajikistan
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe
China, the potential great ally of Russia
China’s position is important, always closer to Russia than to the United States, but for now it remains silent. Although it is usually an ally of Russia in many interests, on this occasion he does not seem at all interested in entering into an armed conflict. Ukraine has asked the Asian country to mediate with Putin. The head of Chinese diplomacy, Wang Yi, lamented in a statement that “the situation in Ukraine has changed rapidly and dramatically” and pointed out that “China is deeply dismayed to see the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and is very concerned about the damage done to civilians.”
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov declared this Sunday that the West It has already blocked some 300,000 million dollars of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Russia due to sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine, almost half of Russia’s reserves. “This is about half of these reserves that we had. We have a total amount of reserves of about 640 billion dollars and of those about 300 billion dollars are now in a situation where we cannot use them,” Siluanov said, in a statement. interview with Russian public television, according to Russian agencies.
That is where the role of China comes into play, which can be a great ally for Russia. Siluanov recalled that part of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Federation are in yuan, so The West is trying to get China to restrict Russia’s access to its currency as well. “And we see the pressure exerted by Western countries on China to limit mutual trade with China. Of course, there is pressure to limit access to those reserves that we have in yuan,” he said.
“I think our partnership with China will still allow us to maintain the cooperation that we have achieved and not only maintain it, but also increase it in the conditions in which Western markets are closed”, stressed the head of the Ministry of Finance.
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