Date uploaded: 2022-04-29 14:06:50
The horrors of war are rampant in Ukraine, and the U.S. and its allies say Moscow needs to pay. But most of the world isn't joining the plan to punish Putin.
When global leaders voted in early April to punish Russia for human rights violations in Ukraine, diplomats representing the majority of the world's population either sided with Moscow or refused to choose a side.
According to a USA TODAY analysis of the vote, about three-quarters of the global population lives in a country that did not support the U.S.-initiated measure that suspended Russia from a top human rights group. Each country received one vote, regardless of its population, land mass or wealth.
Nations including Japan and the Philippines — as well as nearly all of Europe — supported the United States' effort to punish Russia for human rights abuses in Ukraine in the vote. But countries including China, Vietnam and Iran opposed the effort.
Meanwhile, India, Indonesia and Mexico were among the dozens of governments that abstained from the vote, effectively refusing to choose a side.
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