Biden calls out India and China for abstaining from UN resolution blasting Russia

President Joe Biden called out India and China over their abstentions from a United Nations resolution against Russia during a speech about infrastructure.

The U.N. resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine passed overwhelmingly, but Russia and four others, including Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, and Syria, dissented, while 35 nations, including China and India, abstained.

“A vote in the United Nations to condemn Putin — 141 countries voted to do that in the U.N. General Assembly,” Biden said in Superior, Wisconsin. “Several abstained. China abstained, didn’t vote with them, but abstained. India abstained. … They’re alone.”

The U.N. resolution “deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine” and demands that Russia cease its use of force against Ukraine while immediately and unconditionally withdrawing all of its military forces.

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Biden added that Putin thought he could split up the United States over the invasion, mentioning the Jan. 6 capitol riot as an event that may have given the Russian president the belief that the country was too divided to lead.

"That's not who we are," Biden said, adding that now the U.S. is showing that it's united and leading the rest of the world.

His speech mainly focused on the bipartisan infrastructure law, but Biden also opened by attacking Putin, saying the free world will hold him accountable.

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"[Putin] did what he did because he thought he could split NATO, split Europe, and split the United States," Biden said. "We’re going to demonstrate to the whole world — no one can split this country.”