October 13: The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution with a majority of member states condemning the barbaric and brutal attack on Ukraine by Russia. According to the state-owned national news agency RSS, 143 member states voted in favour of the resolution, including Nepal.    

In the voting held on Wednesday, five countries voted against the resolution. The countries that voted against the resolution were Belarus, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Russia and Syria.    

Similarly, 35 countries abstained from voting. Majority of countries abstaining from voting were African nations, alongside China and India.

"We condemn Russia's illegal so-called referendum within Ukraine's internationally-recognized borders and demand it reverses its annexation declaration," reads the resolution.    

Russia launched an attack on Ukraine on February 24 calling it a “special military operation” to protect Russian-speaking people in the troubled Donbas region of Ukraine from the so-called Nazis.

However, Kyiv and its western allies dismiss it as a baseless pretext for war which has killed thousands of people and displaced millions in what is said the be the biggest military operation in Europe since World War II.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has raised concerns of food crisis across the world. Both the countries play a vital role in supply of food grains across the globe. Wheat produced in Ukraine and Russia constitute 29 percent of the wheat traded across the world. These two countries also supply 19 percent of maize to the world.

Russia and Ukraine also supply 80 percent of sunflower oil to the world.

The situation has caused fluctuation in the price of oil globally. Commodity prices have also increased.

Russia and Ukraine are also the chief producers of oil, natural gas and metals.