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Zelensky: Putin’s arrest warrant is a “historic” decision

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday praised the “historic” decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that issued an arrest warrant against Russian head of state Vladimir Putin for war crimes.

“A historic decision, which marks the beginning of a historic responsibility,” Zelensky stressed in a video released on the Telegram social network.

Volodymyr Zelensky underlined that Putin and the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Cabinet of the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, are now “war crime suspects”, recalling their involvement in the “illegal transfer of thousands of children”. Ukrainians to Russian territory.

“It would be impossible to carry out such a criminal operation without the order of the main leader of the terrorist state. Separating children from their families, depriving them of any opportunity to contact their relatives, hiding children on Russian territory , spread them in remote regions – all this is clearly Russian state policy, state decisions, state malice ” folded.

The Ukrainian official also praised the team of ICC Attorney General Karim Khan for helping “fight for justice”.

The ICC today issued an arrest warrant against the Russian president for war crimes, for his alleged involvement in child abductions in Ukraine.

In a 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 occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”.

At stake are thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia or the occupied territories.

A report on Russia’s systematic program for the re-education and adoption of children from Ukraine, released in February by the Humanitarian Research Laboratory at the Yale School of Public Health (HRL), estimates that more than 6,000 Ukrainian minors in 43 Russian reception centers are placed. education camps or orphanages after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The report admits that the number could be much higher.

The non-governmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimates in another report that thousands of Ukrainian children living in orphanages were forcibly transferred to Russia or the occupied territories.

The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).

Author: DN/Lusa

Source: DN

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