The Israeli and American UN missions discussed the upcoming vote beforehand, The Times of Israel learned.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s UN envoy Danny Danon told The Times of Israel that \u201cthe US and Israel each have their own calculations. We take into account a number of factors, including Russian votes against us at the UN. Sometimes there is language in the resolution that the US can\u2019t accept.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t The US delegation had pressed for a separate vote on paragraphs involving Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and international law but this idea was rejected.<\/p>\n The transition from Joe Biden to Donald Trump in the White House last year has seen firm, unconditional US support for Ukraine cool dramatically.<\/p>\n Trump has brought Russian leader Vladimir Putin back in from the diplomatic cold, and Washington has repeatedly refused to condemn the Russian invasion of 2022.<\/p>\n US deputy ambassador Tammy Bruce said she welcomed the UN appeal for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n But she said the resolution includes \u201clanguage that is likely to distract\u201d from diplomatic efforts to end the war rather than support them. She did not identify these words.<\/p>\n Still, leaders of the G7 global powers, including Trump, on Tuesday reaffirmed their \u201cunwavering support for Ukraine\u201d in a statement on the fourth anniversary of the invasion.<\/p>\n \t A month after Trump returned to power in January 2025, the United States voted against a UN General Assembly resolution calling for a \u201cjust and lasting peace\u201d to end the war.<\/p>\n The US delegation later won Security Council passage of a Russian-backed resolution that called for peace but made no mention of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity, frustrating Ukraine\u2019s European allies.<\/p>\n Until then the council had failed to speak out on the war because Russia consistently used its veto power.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite peace efforts led by the US and supported by Europe, Russia continues to demonstrate no genuine willingness to stop this aggression,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa said.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s deputy ambassador Anna Evstigneeva answered, saying Ukraine should focus on diplomacy to end the war \u201crather than initiating yet another politicized vote.\u201d<\/p>\n A year ago, Israel joined <\/a>the US and Russia in voting against a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling to reaffirm Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity, rejecting a strongly worded condemnation of Russia\u2019s invasion of its neighbor on the war\u2019s third anniversary.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s vote, likely an overture to Trump, marked the first time the country had voted against Ukraine and with Russia since the war began.<\/p>\n Israel to give Ukraine generators<\/p>\n Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar announced Tuesday that Israel will send 117 power generators to Ukraine. The devices are to be deployed in the Kyiv region, his office said in a statement.<\/p>\n The move came following discussions with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha \u201con the urgent energy needs,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n \t \u201cAs communities continue to face attacks on critical infrastructure, Israel remains committed to providing practical, life-saving humanitarian assistance on the ground,\u201d the statement said, referring to Russia\u2019s targeting of energy-linked targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n Sa\u2019ar also spoke by phone with Rabbi Meir Stambler, chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine.<\/p>\n Israel has resisted providing weapons to Ukraine \u2014 which requested air defense systems \u2014 saying it needed to avoid jeopardizing diplomatic relations with Moscow.<\/p>\n A second main reason given at the start of the war was the strategic need to maintain freedom of operations in Syria, where Russian forces largely controlled the airspace.<\/p>\n However, this has changed since the fall of the Moscow-allied Assad regime last year.<\/p>\n Sa\u2019ar met with<\/a> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Sybiha in Kyiv in July, where they agreed to initiate a bilateral strategic dialogue on the Iranian threat.<\/p>\n That dialogue is expected to take place next month.<\/p>\n Ukraine has taken a series of steps supporting Israeli positions recently. Last December, it abstained from a UN vote against Israel at the International Court of Justice, and in February, designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Crops as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n
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