president of the united states Joe Biden said his Russian counterpart on Friday Vladimir Putin ‘Clearly committed’ war crimes in the process of Moscowfull-scale invasion of Ukraine Because conflict broke out in the former Soviet Country last February.
“He has clearly committed a war crime,” the US president said Friday, referring to the Russian leader.
speak above Arrest warrant for Putin Biden, issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, said: But the problem is that we are not internationally recognized either. But I think it makes a very strong point. “
The United States is not a member of the Global Court of Justice.
international court charged War crime Putin By taking hundreds of Ukrainian children from orphanages in the war-torn country.
The President of Russia and his Children’s Rights Commissioner, Maria Alekseevna Luboya Belova, carried out the “illegal deportation” of children “from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
The first such arrest warrant for a Russian leader will allow the Court’s 123 member states to detain Mr Putin for trial if he sets foot on their territory, and several It makes the state a dangerous territory for the president of the Kremlin.
Moscow flatly rejected the arrest warrant on Friday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not recognize the ICC and considered the ICC’s decision “legally invalid”.
The move by an international tribunal to issue an arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes is “outrageous and unacceptable.”
Peskov declined to comment when asked if he would avoid traveling to countries where the Russian president could be arrested on an ICC warrant.
In another conclusion, the US accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine and said it supported accountability for perpetrators of war crimes.
“There is no doubt that Russia is committing war crimes and atrocities[in Ukraine]and it is clear that those responsible must be held accountable,” a State Department spokeswoman said in an email. rice field.
“This was a decision made independently by the ICC prosecutors based on the facts at hand.”
Russia is detaining at least 6,000 Ukrainian children in at least 43 camps and other facilities as part of a “massive systematic network,” according to a US-backed Yale University report.
Separately, Ukraine’s Attorney General Andriy Kostin said his office had documented more than 70,000 potential war crimes cases so far in the past 13 months.
