I amThe International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
“Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two individuals in connection with the situation in Ukraine: Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms. Maria Alekseevna Lavova-Belova,” the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, the ICC, said in a statement. .
Mr. The court added that Putin was “responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of the population (children) and illegal transfer of the population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” “Crimes are alleged to have been committed on occupied Ukrainian territory since at least February 24, 2022,” the ICC continued, adding that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Putin is personally responsible for the aforementioned crimes.”
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Created in 2002, the ICC has been investigating war crimes or crimes against humanity committed during the Russian invasion for more than a year to try to solve the world’s worst crimes. Neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the ICC, but Kyiv has accepted the court’s jurisdiction over its territory and is cooperating with the prosecutor.
So it is not possible for Russia to extradite Putin to the court. “Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and has no obligations under it,” Russian foreign policy spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has already stressed, adding that Moscow is “not cooperating” with the court.
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