The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.
The ICC announced the warrant on Friday and said he was “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.”
A day earlier, investigators from the United Nations concluded that Russia’s forced deportation of Ukrainian children qualifies as “a war crime.”
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The number of children deported remains unclear to international investigators, though Ukrainian officials have said they have identified more than 16,000 specific children who were deported to Russia, and the investigators note that both governments at various times “have declared that hundreds of thousands of children have been transferred from Ukraine to the Russian Federation” since the beginning of the war more than a year ago.
