The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, alleging his involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.
News of the arrest warrant came ahead of a planned state visit to Moscow next week by Chinese President Xi Jinping which is likely to cement much closer ties between Russia and China just as relations between Moscow and the West hit new lows.In another diplomatic development related to the Ukraine war, President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s parliament would begin ratifying Finland’s NATO bid, removing the biggest remaining hurdle to enlarging the Western defence alliance.
He also said the Russian leader failed to exercise his rights to stop others who deported children. The judges also issued an arrest warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, accusing her of the same crimes. “The deportation of Ukrainian children is the illegal transfer of thousands of our children to Russian territory,” he said. “It would be impossible to carry out such a criminal operation without the order of the top leader of the terrorist state”.
“The ICC is doing its part of work as a court of law. The judges issued arrest warrants. The execution depends on international cooperation,” he said. From the early days of the invasion last February, Kyiv has accused Russia of forcibly transferring children and adults.
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