Good morning. Russia’s war in Ukraine “going to be a long slog” America’s top General Mark Milley has warned. In Australia, more residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes in NSW amid predictions of historic flooding. It comes as Sydney surpasses its average annual rainfall in just over three months of 2022.
Russia has been suspended from the United Nations’ leading human rights body as its invasion of Ukraine continues to provoke revulsion and outrage around the world. At a meeting of the UN general assembly on Thursday, 93 members voted in favour of the diplomatic rebuke while 24 were against and 58 abstained. “War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted in response. “Grateful to all member states which … chose the right side of history.” Radio transmissions in which Russian soldiers appear to talk among themselves about carrying out premeditated civilian killings in Ukraine have been intercepted by Germany’s foreign intelligence service, a source close to the findings has said. And Western observers fear that genocidal language in Russian media may prompt more war crimes.
