US offers UN resolution on Ukraine war that stops short of European statement

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, third left, US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, second right. Picture: Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo/AP

The United States has proposed a draft United Nations resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow’s forces from Ukraine.

Both are timed to the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which falls on Monday, when the UN General Assembly will vote on the non-binding resolutions.