Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people are dead and parts of the country are decimated. CBS News New York's Jessica Moore reports.

Russia and the U.S. will seek to mend diplomatic ties during talks also focused on ending the conflict in Ukraine as part of a surprise rapprochement under President Donald Trump.

In a setback for the Trump administration the assembly approved a European-backed Ukrainian resolution, which demands an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and calls Moscow’s aggression a violation of the U.

The United States on Wednesday abstained from co-sponsoring a joint statement at the World Trade Organization condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine, a diplomatic source and a Geneva trade official told Reuters.

The United States on 26 February abstained, for the first time, from a statement by World Trade Organisation members condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine. Source: Reuters, citing a diplomatic source and a Geneva trade official.