SEVERODONETSK: (Ukraine): The United Nations suspended Russia from the Human Rights Council, as US President Joe Biden called the atrocities continuing to emerge in Ukraine an “outrage” to humanity.
The diplomatic rebuke came as the G7, the European Union and Washington further tightened the economic screws on Moscow, spurred by the horrific images emerging in recent days from now-infamous towns like Bucha and Mariupol.
“Russia’s lies are no match for the undeniable evidence of what is happening in Ukraine,” Biden said as he hailed Moscow’s expulsion from the rights council.
“The signs of people being raped, tortured, executed, in some cases having their bodies desecrated, are an outrage to our common humanity.”
Moscow rejected its suspension, voted by the UN General Assembly, as “illegal and politically motivated.”
With the Kremlin accused of targeting civilian areas, officials said they had recovered 26 more bodies from the rubble of two destroyed apartment buildings in Borodianka, near Kyiv, where authorities were searching the ruins a week after Russian forces withdrew.
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the destruction in Borodianka was “much more horrific” than in nearby Bucha where Western nations accuse Moscow’s forces of committing war crimes.
In Ukraine’s east, desperate civilians were warned to take their “last chance” to flee with Russian forces believed to be preparing a massive assault after withdrawing from Kyiv and Ukraine’s north.
A barrage of shells and rockets was already hammering the industrial hub Severodonetsk in the Donbas region, the easternmost city held by Ukrainian forces, leaving buildings engulfed in flames.
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