To evict Russia from Ukraine, start by evicting it from the UN

Faced with continuing atrocities perpetrated at the command of dictator Vladimir Putin, the United Nations ought to take the Ukrainian ambassador’s advice: expel Russia from the Security Council and suspend it from the organization as a whole.

As the war began three weeks ago, those were the suggestions by Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N. He argued that Security Council membership, which provides Russia a veto over U.N. collective action, was never transmitted to Russia from the old Soviet Union. He said Russia’s warring aggression puts it in violation of the U.N. Charter, making it no longer a “legitimate” member of the whole body.