The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.
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The ICC say that the Russian president “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”.
The ICC said the crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory “at least” from the beginning of Russia’s invasion on February 24 last year.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through other, and for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility,” the ICC stated on Friday.
It also issued a warrant for the arrest of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, on similar allegations.
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