US Abstention on UN’s Ukraine Peace Vote Prompt’s Ex-Envoy’s Ire
A person stands at a makeshift memorial to fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers in Independence Square in Kyiv on Feb. 23.
Photographer: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty ImagesThe US abstained from a UN vote supporting a lasting peace in Ukraine, prompting criticism from President Donald Trump’s former Ukraine envoy.
“A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure,” Keith Kellogg, who served as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia last year, wrote in a social media post Tuesday. “It is not a business deal-it is war.”