**The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning Russia’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions and demanding that Moscow immediately withdraw its troops from the war-torn country.**
The resolution, which was co-sponsored by Ukraine and a group of Western countries, passed with a vote of 143-5, with 35 abstentions. It was the strongest condemnation of Russia’s actions in Ukraine since the start of the war in February.
In the resolution, the General Assembly declared that Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson is .
