The Ukrainian Presidency was satisfied this Friday with the issuance of an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which considers the Russian president responsible for the deportation of children in areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia.
“This is just the beginning,” said the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andrii Iermak, referring to this announcement as a “historic decision.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also praised the ICC’s position, saying that “the wheels of justice are turning,” adding that he is confident that “international criminals will be held accountable for the theft of children and other international crimes.
Russia was accused of illegally taking Ukrainian children to territories occupied by Moscow troops in Ukraine. On February 16, during a meeting in the Kremlin, Russian Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belov told Putin that she “adopted” a child from Mariupol, a Ukrainian city that, for several months, was controlled by Russian troops until its death. fall in spring. from 2022.
The International Criminal Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges for his alleged role in child abductions in Ukraine.
In the statement, the ICC accuses Putin of being “allegedly responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of population (children) and illegal transfer of population (children) from the occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation on similar charges.
The statement added that the orders are confidential, “to protect victims and witnesses,” as well as to safeguard the normal development of the investigations.
Source: TSF
