The United Nations goal is technically maintaining international peace and security. If they’re always afraid to do something when a country attacks another without provocation, out of fear of escalating the situation, why does it even exist?
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The UN does a lot of great work and is preventing wars either by providing a diplomatic channel, help provide consistent rules, being a neutral part of a conflict or in rare cases intervene directly with the support of all their member states. But one issue with the UN is that it is based on the principle that all nations have autonomy over themselves. So there are mechanisms to prevent unwanted foreign influences. The UN can therefore not pass a resolution without all member states agreeing, even the nations who are part of the conflict. It is governance by agreement taken to the extreme.
That does not mean that the UN is standing passively in the Ukrainian invasion. Putin justifies his invasion by claims of drugged nazis in charge and population massacres. The UN have a system to handle such genocides so the UN starts the work which could result in UN troops being sent to Ukraine instead of the Russian commanded troops. But Putin is one of the few who vote no on such resolutions going against his own rhetoric. Putin can no longer seriously claim that the invasion is to keep the peace and prevent genocide because he actively prevents the UN from helping him in these efforts. That makes it hard for others who might get out of picking a side by saying the invasion is justified.
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