Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.
According to a report from Fox News, President Putin has a warrant out for his arrest for war crimes; it was issued by the International Criminal Court; Russia says the warrant has “no meaning for our country.”
The warrant was issued in response to Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children.
From Fox News:
A warrant was also issued Friday for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, after the ICC declared there are “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.”
The United States is not a member of the ICC and neither assists nor acknowledges the authority of the judicial body.
The ICC wrote that Putin “is 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.”
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova brushed off the arrest warrant, saying, “The decisions of the International Criminal Court have no meaning for our country, including from a legal point of view.”
“Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and does not bear obligations under it,” Zakharova said. “Russia does not cooperate with this body, and possible “recipes” for arrest coming from the International Court of Justice will be legally null and void for us.”
More over at Fox News:
International Criminal Court issues Putin arrest warrant over child deportations from Ukraine https://t.co/BjMBAjMGJO #FoxNews
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