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US to ask UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from UN Human Rights Council.

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The decision was made following the massacre of hundreds of civilians by Russian troops in Bucha and other towns in Kyiv Oblast. 410 bodies of civilians have been collected from the liberated towns as of April 3, according to the Prosecutor General's Office. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, called Russia's membership in the organization a “farce.” She expects the General Assembly to vote this week.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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