The United States moved to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council as the State Department also announced it would collect evidence of war crimes that were allegedly committed in Ukraine. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Monday that “European countries and other partners at the UN, we are going to seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council” following accusations that Russian forces massacred Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, located near Kyiv, over the past weekend. Russian officials have denied that its forces carried out mass executions, alleging that video footage and photos released by Ukrainian officials were staged to create a provocation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday said that such claims need to be investigated first. Details provided by Ukrainian officials “should be subject to serious skepticism,” Peskov said, according to state-run media. Russian military officials, he further claimed, discovered evidence …