The court's decision obligates 123 member countries to arrest the Russian president if he enters their territory.
Putin can still go to Iran, which has acted as a key ally to Moscow, supplying it with drones for its war effort. The world's largest democracy, India, is also not an ICC signatory and has not condemned Putin's invasion. Over the last year, it has solidified ties with Moscow.
This still leaves him with options to visit countries in the Moscow-led alliances of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation such as Armenia and Azerbaijan. Belarus, whose leader Alexander Lukashenko allows Russian forces to use the country as a staging post for the war, remains a firm ally. A U.S. State Department spokesperson told Newsweek that the Kremlin had in some cases cut off communication with the families and guardians of the children, and has not provided registration lists of those who had been relocated and deported.
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