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 – more than double the vote against a similar resolution two years ago.

The U.S. is calling on members of the United Nations General Assembly to nix a proposed resolution from Ukraine demanding Russian troops withdrawal from the country, in favor of their own resolution that urges lasting peace but does not compel Russia to leave the war-torn region.

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.

The United Nations Security Council has approved a “neutral” resolution on Ukraine, introduced by the United States, in a vote held on February 24, the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in December, told a judge Friday that her client was illegally searched during his arrest and she would seek to exclude that evidence from his trial on state murder and terrorism charges.