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Now The Hague will participate. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin (70). The ICC announced on Friday afternoon that it concerned alleged war crimes. The prosecutors focus, among other things, on the alleged abduction of Ukrainian children on Russian territory.
Allegations of child abduction have surfaced repeatedly in recent months. Scientists at Yale University in the US have discovered that the Russian government has kidnapped at least 6,000 Ukrainian children since the start of the offensive war against Ukraine. Those affected are between four months and 17 years old.
According to the investigation, the children were deliberately placed in re-education camps in Russia or on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, and some in adoption centers. There they get acquainted with the culture, history and society of Russia. Some of them apparently receive academic or military training in addition to patriotic education.
The kidnapping of civilians is prohibited under international law. “Children are under the special protection of the Geneva Convention,” said the president of the International Criminal Court, Piotr Hofmanski (67). Arrest warrants have also been issued against Putin’s Children’s Commissioner, Maria Alexeyevna Lvowa-Belowa.
The Russian was heavily criticized several times during the war. She is accused of the kidnapping and forced mediation of Ukrainian children. In the US it is on the sanctions list.
Russia reacted immediately to the issuance of the arrest warrant. Maria Zakharova (47), spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “The decisions of the International Criminal Court have no meaning for our country, not even in legal terms. Russia has not ratified the Hague conventions and has no obligations under this statute Russia does not cooperate with this body and possible arrest warrants from the International Court of Justice are legally null and void for us.”
The exact text of the arrest warrants will not be released to protect victims and witnesses, the court said.
Source: Blick
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