Key takeaways:
- The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, on charges of war crimes.
- The ICC’s pre-trial chamber found there were “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime.”
- The ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova is a significant step in the international community’s efforts to hold those responsible for war crimes accountable.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, on charges of war crimes.
The court said in a statement that Putin and Lvova-Belova are “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
The ICC’s pre-trial chamber found there were “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime.” Lvova-Belova is the official at the center of the alleged scheme to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia.
The ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin and Lvova-Belova is the latest development in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The two countries have been in a state of tension since 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
The ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova is a significant step in the international community’s efforts to hold those responsible for war crimes accountable. It remains to be seen how the Russian government will respond to the warrants.
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