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Vladimir Putin Arrest Warrant Issued by International Criminal Court

Earlier today, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin as well as his Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova on the grounds of “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children.

The court’s pre-trial judges assessed that there were “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears the responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that unlawful transportation of transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in the prejudice of Ukrainian Children.

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Judges were considering issuing secret warrants but then mentioned if they made it public they would be able to “contribute to the prevention of the further commission of crimes”.

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Moscow leaders stated that they do not recognize the Jurisdiction of the ICC. Foreign Ministry leader Maria Zakharova stated “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 bears no obligations under it.”

Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was excited by the news and said on his social media that “It’s only the beginning.”

Human rights international and managing partner of Global Rights Compliance, Wayne Jordash, agreed that the 2 warrants issued today were the first of many to come.

“More will come over the next few months. This has got to be a sort of warning shot across the bow. This is the prosecutor just getting something in the docket,” said Jordash. The ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, began war crimes investigations in Ukraine over a year ago and continues to double down on this.

 

Russian leadership has been very open and upfront about bringing the displaced Ukrainian children back to Russia and putting them up for adoption. In February, Lvova-Belova went on television stating she had adopted one of these children.

It is believed that because of her broadcast of the adoption might’ve been a catalyst in the issuing of these warrants against Putin and herself.

 

Associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch, Balkees Jarrah stated:

“With these arrest warrants, the ICC has made Putin a wanted man and taken its first step to end the impunity that has emboldened perpetrators in Russia’s war against Ukraine for far too long.

“The warrants send a clear message that giving orders to commit or tolerating serious crimes against civilians may lead to a prison cell in The Hague. The court’s warrants are a wakeup call to others committing abuses or covering them up that their day in court may be coming, regardless of their rank or position.”

 

 

“Putin’s arrest warrant is related to Russia’s kidnapping of Ukrainian minors”

 

Another Image shows the rescue of one of the children

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a video post to twitter.

Tweet Says International Criminal Court issues warrant of arrest for Putin. The historic decision, from which historical responsibility will begin.

 

Responses to his video