The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations of atrocities during its one-year invasion of its neighbour.
The ICC issued the warrant for Putin’s arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
Separately the court issued warrants for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, on the same charges.
The ICC said that its pre-trial chamber found there were “reasonable grounds to believe that each
