The United States voted against a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly on Monday that blamed Russia for invading Ukraine exactly three years ago.

The U.S. was joined by Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and 14 other Moscow-friendly nations in voting against the resolution, which included language condemning Russian aggression and calling for Moscow to give up the territory it occupies, which ultimately passed by a wide margin. The vote was 93-18, with 65 abstentions.

The U.S. sided with Russia and China to win the United Nations Security Council’s backing for a resolution crafted in Washington that didn’t blame Moscow for the Ukraine war and called for a swift end to the conflict, as President Trump said he was in talks with Russia about an economic-development deal.

Trump’s comments and the U.S.’s vote at the U.N. on Monday illustrated the extent to which the president has changed the U.S.’s posture toward the region, coming on the same day as European leaders gathered in Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of the invasion. 

In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.N. resolutions Monday seeking an end to the three-year war.

The growing divide follows Trump’s decision to open direct negotiations with Russia on ending the war, dismaying Ukraine and its European supporters by excluding them from the preliminary talks last week.

The United Nations Security Council passed a U.S.-drafted cease-fire deal aimed at halting eight months of bloody fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The draft of the resolution, which President Joe Biden approved, was finalized Sunday after almost a week of negotiations among members of the 15-member council.

For it to pass, the resolution needed at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the countries that have the power to send any cease-fire proposal back to the drawing board — the U.S., France, Britain, China or Russia.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a resolution sponsored by the United States calling for an immediate, temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

Fourteen members of the 15-member body voted in favor of the resolution, with one abstention from the Russian Federation.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday voted to adopt President Joe Biden's resolution that outlined a ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas. 

Russia abstained from the vote, while the other 14 council member nations voted in the ceasefire plan's favor. 

The resolution states that Israel has accepted the ceasefire plan and calls on Hamas' leaders to accept the three-phase plan 'without delay and without condition.' 

The U.S. abstained from the vote on a resolution calling for a halt to fighting in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, breaking a five-month impasse.

The Security Council vote followed months of wrangling and vetoes of several earlier resolutions.

Israel’s defense minister will meet several senior U.S. officials.

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On April Fools’ Day, the Russian Federation assumed presidency of the United Nations Security Council as it wages war on Ukraine, in what Ukraine’s president said showed its “total bankruptcy.”

Russia last took the chair of the intergovernmental body, which is tasked with maintaining peace and combating acts of international aggression, in February 2022 when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of neighboring Ukraine in violation of Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter.

Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move.

Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern.

The last time Russia had the presidency, February 2022, it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

It means the Security Council is being led by a country whose president is subject to an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.

A top Ukrainian official has criticised the “symbolic blow” of Russia assuming the rotating presidency of the United Nations security council.

Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, wrote on Twitter on Saturday: “It’s not just a shame. It is another symbolic blow to the rules-based system of international relations.”

Russia on Saturday took over the presidency of the UN’s top security body, which rotates every month.