“By organizing this debate Russia is trying to portray itself as a defender of the UN Charter and multilateralism. Nothing can be further from the truth,” Olof Skoog, EU ambassador to the United Nations, says ahead of a Security Council meeting led by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield follows Skoog with a statement calling out Russia for violating human rights “both inside and outside its own borders.” IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES