The Hague (EFE) , which is a war crime.
He also issued another arrest warrant for Russian politician Maria Lvova-Belova, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, with the same accusation.
Ukrainian prosecutor thanks ICC for arrest warrant against Putin
The Ukrainian Attorney General today thanked the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the arrest warrant issued by this court based in The Hague against the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on charges of illegally deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
“I personally thank the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan for this historic decision,” the head of the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, Andriy Kostin, wrote on his Twitter account, recalling that the Ukrainian justice system is investigating the forced deportation to Russia of more than 16,000 Ukrainian children. of territories occupied by Moscow.
“We fear that the real numbers are much higher,” added the Ukrainian attorney general, who also explained that the Kiev authorities have shared with The Hague more than 40 volumes and a thousand pages of evidence documenting these cases.
Kostin recalled that the order issued by The Hague obliges the countries that are part of the court to arrest and hand over the Russian president to the ICC. “World leaders should think twice before shaking hands or sitting down with Putin,” the Ukrainian prosecutor stressed.
Ukraine had initiated several proceedings against Russia in The Hague for the more than 70,000 Russian war crimes it claims to have documented in the territory.
It is the first time in history that the ICC has issued an arrest warrant against the president of a country that is a member of the UN Security Council.