The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin citing war crimes in Ukraine. Moscow has denied accusations that its forces have committed atrocities during Russia's one-year-old invasion of its neighbor
an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegal deportation of children from Ukraine, in a move that caused outrage in the Kremlin., after Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
Russia has not concealed a programme under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia, but presents it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the conflict zone. "We regard any attacks on the President of the Russian Federation as aggression against our country," he said."Putin! Nobody will arrest him. Rather, he will arrest everyone," a man who gave his name only as Daniil, 20, told Reuters.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia was not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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