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The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, issued this Friday, March 17, an arrest warrant against the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, accused of war crimes in the framework of the invasion he launched against Ukraine over a year ago. The arrest measure was also carried out against the Russian commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, for the “illegal deportation” of Ukrainian minors.
Arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine. This was established by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on March 17.
The investigating judges of the High Court pointed out that, specifically, the president is accused as the main person responsible for the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, who during the ongoing invasion of Moscow have been transferred to Russia.
There are “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect is responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of population and illegal transfer of population from the occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, to the detriment of Ukrainian children,” the magistrates noted.
For this reason, the court also issued an arrest warrant for the Russian commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.
It is the visible face of those actions that the Kremlin promotes on local television as a “humanitarian mission” program to “protect” orphaned or “abandoned” minors from the conflict.
But the ICC investigations rule out the good intentions of the Putin administration, pointing to forced and illegal transfers.
On March 14, ICC officials announced that the international court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, would formally open two cases against Moscow for war crimes and request arrest warrants against several individuals.although at that time it was not revealed to whom they would be directed.
The same sources indicated that the court aims to judge two processes: the mass kidnapping of children and adolescents who have been sent to Russian re-education camps and the deliberate attacks by Vladimir Putin’s troops against civilian infrastructure.
A few hours after that announcement, the Russian government responded that it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
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With Reuters and local media
