The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the head of the EU diplomacy Josep Borell are today travelling to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. On Thursday the UN General Assembly voted for suspending Russia from the UN Council of Human Rights for severe and repeated human rights violations. 93 countries have voted in favour of the resolution proposed by the USA, 24 countries were against it and 58 abstained. The decision has been made after the discovery of hundreds of dead, many with torture marks, and summary executions in the regions recaptured by the Ukrainian troops. Russia denies that its troops have killed civilians. The Kremlin says the decision to suspend Russia from the aforementioned UN council is illegal and politically-motivated. Russia steps up its attacks in Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions while Ukrainians are trying to evacuate the citizens in the regions affected by the war. Two Russian missiles have hit a railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk killing 30 people and wounding another 100, the Ukraine’s railway company has today announced. The station was used in the evacuation of refugees from the areas bombed by the Russian troops. In another development, the mayor of Mariupol says that over 100 thousand people must be urgently evacuated from the city. On Thursday, the World Health Organisation confirmed over 100 attacks against health services in Ukraine and called for the access of humanitarian convoys to this city currently besieged by the Russian troops.
