On February 24, local time, the third anniversary of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the 79th UN General Assembly passed two draft resolutions on Ukraine, calling for an early end to the conflict. On the same day, the UN Security Council also passed a draft resolution calling for Russia and Ukraine to "quickly" achieve peace with 10 votes in favor and 5 abstentions.

However, these three resolutions and the overt and covert confrontations between the countries behind them have further publicized the differences between the new US government and its European allies on the Ukraine issue. It is reported that the two draft resolutions on Ukraine passed by the General Assembly on the 24th were proposed by Ukraine and the United States respectively. The "Ukrainian version" of the draft characterizes the conflict as "aggression", which makes the Trump administration dissatisfied.

Many media disclosed that after Washington failed to pressure Ukraine to withdraw last week, it temporarily proposed a draft on its own. The content of the draft is consistent with the content of the draft resolution later passed by the Security Council, avoiding the above-mentioned Russian-related wording. However, France, Germany, Britain and other countries proposed a number of amendments at the General Assembly on the 24th, adding the term describing the conflict as a "full invasion", and the United States eventually abstained from voting on the revised draft resolution.

In the eyes of many Western media, the US abstention on the revised "US version" of the draft - and its vote against the "Ukrainian version" - is no different from supporting Russia. Richard Gowan, director of the UN project of the International Crisis Group, observed that the UN has not seen such a major US-European split since the Iraq War. He believes that this disagreement is more acute because it is directly related to Europe's security.