UN General Assembly · 11 votes since 2014
The main UN General Assembly votes on the war in Ukraine
This page covers 11 recorded votes in the General Assembly on Ukraine. Support peaked at 143 yes votes in October 2022, when the Assembly rejected Russia's attempted annexation of four Ukrainian regions. It fell to 93 in February 2025, when the United States voted no alongside Russia on a Ukraine resolution for the first time. In December 2025 the Assembly voted 91 to 12 on returning Ukrainian children. On February 24, 2026, a resolution calling for a ceasefire and reaffirming Ukraine's territorial integrity passed 107 to 12, with the United States abstaining.
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Every vote
The list covers every resolution adopted by the eleventh emergency special session on Ukraine, a format the Assembly can convene when the Security Council is blocked by a veto. It also includes the 2014 vote on Crimea, which predates the emergency session. It does not list the session's separate votes on amendments and procedural motions.
- 1. Crimea: Ukraine's territorial integrityMarch 27, 2014 100 yes11 no58 abstained
- 2. Aggression against UkraineMarch 2, 2022 141 yes5 no35 abstained
- 3. Humanitarian consequences of the aggressionMarch 24, 2022 140 yes5 no38 abstained
- 4. Suspending Russia from the Human Rights CouncilApril 7, 2022 93 yes24 no58 abstained
- 5. Rejecting the attempted annexation of four regionsOctober 12, 2022 143 yes5 no35 abstained
- 6. Reparations for the aggressionNovember 14, 2022 94 yes14 no73 abstained
- 7. A just and lasting peace, one year onFebruary 23, 2023 141 yes7 no32 abstained
- 8. A just and lasting peace, three years onFebruary 24, 2025 93 yes18 no65 abstained
- 9. The US text, as amendedFebruary 24, 2025 93 yes8 no73 abstained
- 10. Return of Ukrainian childrenDecember 3, 2025 91 yes12 no57 abstained
- 11. Support for lasting peace in UkraineFebruary 24, 2026 · not yet in the UN's dataset 107 yes12 no51 abstained
How has support for Ukraine at the UN changed?
Resolutions on broad principles drew the most support. The first vote after Russia's full-scale invasion in March 2022 passed 141 to 5, with 35 abstentions. In October 2022, 143 countries voted to reject Russia's attempted annexation of four Ukrainian regions. That was the high point.
Resolutions with consequences for Russia drew far fewer votes even in 2022. Suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council in April 2022 passed 93 to 24, and the reparations text in November 2022 passed 94 to 14.
By February 2025 the broader texts had also fallen to that level. The third-anniversary resolution passed 93 to 18, with 65 abstentions. Seven countries that voted yes in March 2022 voted no, including the United States, Israel and Hungary. Another 35 moved from yes to abstaining, among them Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates.
The February 2026 resolution, which called for a ceasefire and reaffirmed Ukraine's territorial integrity, recovered to 107 yes votes. The United States abstained rather than voting no.
Which countries stopped voting yes?
Between March 2022 and February 2025, 35 countries moved from yes to abstaining and 7 moved from yes to no.
The 7 that switched to no were the United States, Israel, Hungary, Haiti, Niger, Palau and the Marshall Islands. The United States had never before voted against a Ukraine resolution at the General Assembly. Hungary was the only European Union member to vote no.
Among the 35 that moved to abstaining were Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Kuwait, Panama, Qatar and Yemen. Many are countries from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America that had supported the earlier, broader texts.
Richard Gowan of the Crisis Group wrote that support from non-Western countries had been slipping before 2025, partly over the war in Gaza. On the Security Council vote that day, he wrote: "Now the US sided with China and Russia over its allies."
Yes→Abstained35
Argentina
Bahrain
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Chad
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Gabon
Ghana
Grenada
Honduras
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Lebanon
Lesotho
Libya
Malawi
Mauritania
Micronesia
North Macedonia
Oman
Panama
Paraguay
Qatar
Rwanda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Tuvalu
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Zambia
Yes→No7
Haiti
Hungary
Israel
Marshall Islands
Niger
Palau
United States
Abstained→No6
Burundi
Central African Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Mali
Nicaragua
Sudan
No→Abstained1
SyriaUnchanged: 93 yes both times, 25 abstained both times, 4 no both times. Countries that didn't vote on one of the two, or weren't members yet, are left out.
Why did the United States vote with Russia in 2025?
On February 24, 2025, the General Assembly voted on two competing texts. Ukraine and European states drafted one that repeated the Assembly's earlier demand for Russia's withdrawal. The United States drafted a shorter text it called "The path to peace." The United States voted no on Ukraine's text and urged Ukraine to withdraw it. The US representative told the Assembly: "Those resolutions have failed to stop the war." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement on February 22, 2025: "This is our opportunity to build real momentum toward peace."
European states then amended the US text, adding references to Russia's invasion and Ukraine's sovereignty. France introduced the amendments, which passed 60 to 18, with 81 abstentions. The United States voted against the amendments. When the amended US text came to a final vote, both the United States and Ukraine abstained. It passed 93 to 8.
The same day, the Security Council adopted the unamended US text as resolution 2774, by 10 to 0 with 5 abstentions. Russia and China voted yes.
In December 2025, the United States voted yes on a resolution demanding the return of Ukrainian children that the resolution describes as forcibly transferred or deported. It passed 91 to 12. On the February 2026 ceasefire resolution, the United States abstained. Deputy Representative Tammy Bruce said the text "includes language that is likely to distract from ongoing negotiations."
How have the big powers voted?
China has abstained on every vote except two. It voted no on suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council in April 2022 and no on reparations in November 2022. India and Pakistan have abstained on all 10 votes in the dataset.
Brazil voted yes on four of the first seven resolutions and abstained on the rest, including every vote from February 2025 onward. South Africa abstained on the first eight votes, then voted yes on the amended US text in February 2025 and on the children's resolution in December 2025, before returning to abstaining in February 2026.
Israel voted yes on most resolutions but voted no on the Ukrainian text in February 2025. Hungary voted yes through February 2023, voted no in February 2025, and was the only EU member not to vote yes on the 2026 text.
| Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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| United States | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: No | 9: Abstained | 10: Yes |
 Russia | 1: No | 2: No | 3: No | 4: No | 5: No | 6: No | 7: No | 8: No | 9: No | 10: No |
 China | 1: Abstained | 2: Abstained | 3: Abstained | 4: No | 5: Abstained | 6: No | 7: Abstained | 8: Abstained | 9: Abstained | 10: Abstained |
 India | 1: Abstained | 2: Abstained | 3: Abstained | 4: Abstained | 5: Abstained | 6: Abstained | 7: Abstained | 8: Abstained | 9: Abstained | 10: Abstained |
| Brazil | 1: Abstained | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Abstained | 5: Yes | 6: Abstained | 7: Yes | 8: Abstained | 9: Abstained | 10: Abstained |
 South Africa | 1: Abstained | 2: Abstained | 3: Abstained | 4: Abstained | 5: Abstained | 6: Abstained | 7: Abstained | 8: Abstained | 9: Yes | 10: Yes |
 United Kingdom | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Yes |
 France | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Yes |
 Germany | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Yes |
 Japan | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Yes |
 Turkey | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Didn't vote |
| Saudi Arabia | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Abstained | 5: Yes | 6: Abstained | 7: Yes | 8: Abstained | 9: Abstained | 10: Abstained |
| United Arab Emirates | 1: Didn't vote | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Abstained | 5: Yes | 6: Abstained | 7: Yes | 8: Abstained | 9: Abstained | 10: Abstained |
 Indonesia | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Abstained | 5: Yes | 6: Abstained | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Abstained |
| Israel | 1: Didn't vote | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Abstained | 7: Yes | 8: No | 9: Abstained | 10: Yes |
| Hungary | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: No | 9: Abstained | 10: Yes |
| Argentina | 1: Abstained | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Yes | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Abstained | 9: Abstained | 10: Yes |
 Mexico | 1: Yes | 2: Yes | 3: Yes | 4: Abstained | 5: Yes | 6: Yes | 7: Yes | 8: Yes | 9: Yes | 10: Yes |
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- Didn't vote
What do Ukraine, Russia and the countries that abstain say?
Ukraine's officials say the votes defend the principles of the UN Charter. On February 24, 2025, Mariana Betsa, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister, said Ukraine fights for a "world of nations that are not divided into predators and prey." In 2026, when the United States tried to remove language on sovereignty and territorial integrity, Betsa said: "Weakening or removing this language would send a very dangerous signal that these principles are negotiable."
Russia's officials say the Ukrainian-drafted resolutions politicize the war and do not serve peace. Vassily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative, said on February 24, 2025: "Don't get deceived, vote against the Ukrainian draft, make the right choice." In 2026, Anna Evstigneeva, Russia's deputy permanent representative, said: "What you have before you is not an instrument of peace, it is an instrument of politicization."
India, China and South Africa say they abstain because the texts do too little to support dialogue and negotiation. T.S. Tirumurti, India's permanent representative, said in March 2022: "We remain firm in our conviction, that differences can only be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy." Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative, said in March 2022 that the text "does not highlight ... the urgency of promoting political settlement and stepping up diplomatic efforts." South Africa's ambassador Mathu Joyini said in 2025 that the Ukraine-drafted text fell short on "creating a positive momentum towards a peaceful negotiation."
On February 24, 2026, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said more than 15,000 civilians had been killed in Ukraine since the start of the war and over 41,000 injured. On October 21, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said three-way talks with the United States could resume in mid-November. Ukraine wants them held by early November.