The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council amid mounting concerns that Moscow’s troops are committing grave war crimes in Ukraine.
The vote came as global outrage over the killings of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha intensified. Bodies were found strewn in the streets — and in some cases showed signs of torture — after Russian troops retreated.
Germany’s foreign intelligence service claims to have intercepted radio communications in which Russian soldiers discuss indiscriminate killings in Ukraine. In two communications, Russian troops described how they question soldiers as well as civilians, and proceed to shoot them, according to an intelligence official familiar with the findings who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
World leaders have responded with tougher sanctions and promises to send Ukraine more weapons — measures that Ukrainian officials have welcomed but say aren’t enough to help prevent future atrocities.
Thousands of people are fleeing eastern Ukraine, bracing for an intensified Russian assault in the eastern part of the country.
The vote came as global outrage over the killings of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha intensified. Bodies were found strewn in the streets — and in some cases showed signs of torture — after Russian troops retreated.
Germany’s foreign intelligence service claims to have intercepted radio communications in which Russian soldiers discuss indiscriminate killings in Ukraine. In two communications, Russian troops described how they question soldiers as well as civilians, and proceed to shoot them, according to an intelligence official familiar with the findings who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
World leaders have responded with tougher sanctions and promises to send Ukraine more weapons — measures that Ukrainian officials have welcomed but say aren’t enough to help prevent future atrocities.
Thousands of people are fleeing eastern Ukraine, bracing for an intensified Russian assault in the eastern part of the country.
