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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

US considers booting Russia out of UN Human Rights Council after ‘hitting schools, hospitals’ in Ukraine

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to consider booting Russia from the council as President Vladimir Putin’s forces continue to kill innocent men, women and children in Ukraine.

Mr Blinken questioned whether the nation can remain among the 47 member states while “committing horrific human rights abuses and causing massive humanitarian suffering” to another member state.

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