Russia-Ukraine War: International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Putin

The International Criminal Court today issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir. Putin About his barbaric invasion of Ukraine.

The ICC has accused Putin of being responsible for war crimes committed by his troops in Ukraine.

Since then, the world has watched in horror as Putin’s soldiers dropped missiles on apartments, tortured and then shot civilians, and systematically raped women and girls.

Men, women, children and the youngest victim, a 14-year-old boy, were executed by Russian soldiers and their bodies thrown into a deep ditch dug into the ground.

At least 7,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 8 million Ukrainians have fled to countries across Europe due to the scale of suffering, which indiscriminately targets men, women and children.

Last March, a month after the war began, Russian soldiers released a series of indiscriminate bombs into civilian areas, leaving death and destruction in their wake.

During a three-month-long siege of the city south of Mariupol, Russian forces destroyed the city and killed hundreds of civilians in missile attacks. The world watched in horror as Russian troops blew up his maternity hospital on March 9, killing a pregnant woman and her baby and injuring at least 17 of her.

A week later, Russian aircraft again dropped missiles on civilian areas. This time at the Donetsk Regional Theater in Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians were housed, with the word “Children” written outside in large white letters. At least a dozen people were killed and dozens injured in the attack.

Attacks on civilians continue. On January 14, a Russian missile attack on an apartment in the city of Dnipro killed at least 44 of her people, including five children, and injured 79 others.

Since October, Russian forces have repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, plunging cities into darkness and leaving millions without heating during the bitterly cold winter.

In the early days of the war, Russian troops were forced to withdraw from towns and cities across Ukraine, but as they retreated, the war crimes committed by Russian troops against civilians became clear.

Since March, mass graves have been filled with the bodies of thousands of civilians, many with their hands tied behind their backs, found in liberated areas of Kiev and Kharkiv regions, including the city of Bucha. Irpin and Izum, along with the torture chambers that were rendered.

When Mr. Zelensky visited Bucha last April, he became visibly emotional and agitated when he saw dozens of corpses shot at point-blank range lying in a deserted street. stood without

Surviving civilians recount how Russian soldiers detained them for months, subjecting them to electric shocks, waterboarding and beatings.

Horrifying testimonies of Russian soldiers gang-raping a 22-year-old Ukrainian mother, sexually abusing her husband, and forcing the couple to have sex in front of them before raping their 4-year-old daughter also equate rape with war. used as a weapon.

In many cases, Russian soldiers would shoot or threaten to kill the women’s husbands in an attempt to protect them and stop the rape.

Russian soldiers have also taken more than 20,000 Ukrainian “hostages” and sent them to Russia, the Ukrainian envoy for human rights said in January.

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