The Russian Foreign Ministry said: “The vote of the World Health Assembly, which is the highest administrative body of the World Health Organization, showed that the international community has become more realistic about the situation in Ukraine”, stating that “out of 183 member states of the World Health Organization took part in the session and had the right to vote, 88 countries supported the Ukrainian decision, and Ukraine and its supporters failed to gain even half of the votes of the participants in support, despite the unprecedented pressure measures that they are known to have exercised across countries. One more on the eve of the session and already on the way to it.”

“There is a trend in which the international community is beginning to look more realistically at the situation in Ukraine and its environs, not wanting to sacrifice multilateral cooperation in areas important to all mankind,” the statement says.

The vote at the 75th World Health Assembly did not result in Russia being stripped of its voting rights in an international organization on the basis of a draft resolution put forward by Kyiv against the background of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.