The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Affairs Mariia Lvova-Belova on March 17, 2023.
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The ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova for war crimes including illegal deportation and displacement of population, including children, from occupied Ukrainian territory since February 24, 2022.
ICC issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova over forcible transfer of Ukrainian children
On March 17, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova
The ICC asserts that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin holds direct accountability for supervising the deportations
ICC issues arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova on March 17, 2023.
Putin and Lvova-Belova are suspected of committing the war crime of illegal deportation of children from occupied regions of Ukraine.
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