And, for that matter, for the people of the Republic of Georgia, who have been watching the war in Ukraine with growing horror, realizing that their own fledgling democracy is yet more vulnerable to the same force, to the same man with a friend now back in one of the world’s highest places, if not the highest.

The United Nations General Assembly voted Monday to reaffirm Ukraine's territorial integrity, adopting a strongly worded resolution condemning Russia's invasion of its neighbor on the third anniversary of the conflict.

Dmytro Kuleba, senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and a former foreign minister of Ukraine, spoke about the UN General Assembly voting on a resolution calling for a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine,

Romanian prosecutors summoned the frontrunner in last year's cancelled presidential election, far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, for questioning on Wednesday as part of their wider investigation into the vote, judicial sources said.

The United States opposed a resolution demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine, but won Security Council approval of one calling for peace without assigning blame, exposing fissures between allies.

The United States has proposed a draft resolution for the U.N. General Assembly that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow’s force