Washington fails to block it and presents an alternative text, more lenient towards Moscow, but ends up abstaining after European amendments toughen it. The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution on the war in Ukraine this Monday,

Three years to the day since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the UN General Assembly adopted two competing resolutions on resolving the conflict on Monday, one initiated by the United States and the other by Ukraine – a sign of strategic differences within the transatlantic alliance over the way forward for peace.

In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States has split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.