Russia's Closest Allies Desert Putin as Country Humiliated at UN

[Rogue Valley]

Russia's Closest Allies Desert Putin as Country Humiliated at UN

3.4.22
Some of Russia's closest allies abandoned the country on Friday during a vote of the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council to condemn alleged human rights violations in Ukraine. Only Eritrea joined Russia in voting against the resolution as 32 countries of the 47-member body based in Geneva, Switzerland, voted in favor of establishing an independent commission to investigate the allegations against Russia. Thirteen countries abstained from the vote, including some nations generally considered close to Russia. China, Cuba and Venezuela all abstained. Cuba and China also abstained in a vote of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that called for Russia to remove its troops from Ukraine. Venezuela had not been able to vote as its voting rights were suspended over unpaid membership fees. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the vote on Friday, tweeting: "I welcome the establishment by the #UN Human Rights Council of the International Commission of Inquiry to investigate facts of Russian war crimes against Ukraine.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Yevheniia Filipenko, had told the council there was "irrefutable evidence of gross and systematic human rights violations as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russia." "Evidence will be documented and used in international courts. Russian war criminals will be held accountable," he wrote. A three-person commission is to be established to investigate the allegations and will initially operate for one year with a report expected in early 2023. It will work with an already existing UN rights team for Ukraine. Recent UN votes appear to indicate that Putin is diplomatically isolated as the U.S. and its NATO allies press ahead with sanctions.

Evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine will be abundant.

Yesterday Putin had the nerve to say on the state-controlled Rossiya 24 news channel that "Russia has no ill intentions" towards Ukraine or other neighboring countries and called for the normalization of relations.

Putin Says Russia Has 'No Ill Intentions,' Pleads for No More Sanctions

The Russian president said that Russia was acting "exclusively in response to unfriendly actions."

www.newsweek.com

 

[Jkca1]

.This is a problem with how people view the news. They don't think like Russians. Let us know when Putin gives a sh*t about another country's negative opinions about Mother Russia. Until then party on Garth.

 

[Rogue Valley]

.This is a problem with how people view the news. They don't think like Russians. Let us know when Putin gives a sh*t about another country's negative opinions about Mother Russia. Until then party on Garth.

The idea isn't to convince Putin that he's a bad actor.

The thrust is to convince the world and isolate Putin.