Putin is only the third serving president to have been issued an ICC arrest warrant, after Omar al-Bashir and Muammar Gaddafi
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: SPUTNIK VIA REUTERS/GAVRIIL GRIGOROVAmsterdam — The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegal deportation of children from Ukraine, a move Moscow said was meaningless.
The ICC issued the warrant on suspicion of the unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. The court also issued a warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, on the same charges. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia found the very questions raised by the ICC “outrageous and unacceptable”, and that any decisions of the court were “null and void” with respect to Russia.Senior Ukrainian officials applauded the ICC decision, with the country’s prosecutor general Andriy Kostin hailing it as “historic for Ukraine and the entire international law system”.
The ICC move came a day after a UN-mandated investigative body accused Russia of committing wide-ranging war crimes in Ukraine, including wilful killings and torture, in some cases making children watch loved ones being raped and detaining others alongside dead bodies. China has denied any such plan, criticising Western weapon supplies to Ukraine, which will soon extend to fighter jets after Poland and Slovakia this week approved deliveries. The Kremlin said the jets would simply be destroyed.
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