US Seeks to Remove Russia From UN Human Rights Council as Kremlin Denies Charges

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) Vasily Nebenzya speaks regarding an incident in Salisbury, Britain, during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council at the U.N. headquarters in New York, on April 5, 2018. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

The United States moved to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council as the State Department also announced it would collect evidence of war crimes that were allegedly committed in Ukraine.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Monday that “European countries and other partners at the UN, we are going to seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council” following accusations that Russian forces massacred Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, located near Kyiv, over the past weekend.