"ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin over Alleged War Crimes and Child Deportations"

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his children's rights commissioner, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, for the "unlawful deportation" of Ukrainian children. The ICC pre-trial judges found "reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children." Russia has said it does not recognize the ICC's jurisdiction. The ICC prosecutor began war crimes investigations in Ukraine over a year ago.