The United States has joined Russia to vote against a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine. CNN reports that the vote against the Ukrainian and European-backed resolution on Monday marks a stunning shift from years of US policy.

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.

Seventeen countries in the United Nations General Assembly joined the U.S. on Monday in voting against a nonbinding resolution condemning Russia as the aggressor in the ongoing war in Ukraine –