“Russia’s lies do not match the indisputable evidence of what is happening in Ukraine,” he said. “The signs of people being raped, tortured, executed – in some cases desecrated – are an outburst for our common humanity.” Mr Biden welcomed Moscow’s expulsion from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday, and Moscow rejected the suspension, which was voted in by the UN General Assembly, as “illegal and politically motivated”. A Ukrainian diplomat has asked the United States to send weapons to his besieged nation in a speech to the Arizona legislature on Thursday. Dmytro Kushneruk, Ukraine’s consul general in San Francisco, told Arizona lawmakers that Ukraine needed three things to repel Russian invaders and prevent more civilian deaths: “Guns, guns and weapons.” Kushneruk said it was a “war for the soul of humanity” and time was running out as Russia prepared for an impending attack in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
