Ukraine war: Russia suspended from UN Human Rights Council

Amid the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, Russia has been suspended from UN Human Rights Council. The decision was made in the General Assembly on Thursday, where 193 members voted to accept a resolution by the US. The US claims that civilians were killed by the Russian military while withdrawing from the towns near Kyiv, Ukraine.

Antony Blinken, US State Secretary trained guns on Russia and said that a 'country that is perpetrating gross and systematic violations of human rights should not sit on a body whose job it is to protect those rights'.

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93 countries voted for the resolution while 24 voted against and 58 abstained from voting, including India.

Following the resolution, Russia became the second member country to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. Libya was the first in 2011.