How effective is ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin? Biden welcomed the action

Washington: US President Joe Biden has welcomed the issuance of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court against his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The ICC has accused President Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine, BBC reports. The claims center on the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia since the invasion of Moscow in 2022. Moscow has denied the allegations and described the warrant as ‘outrageous’.

As the BBC reports, there is little chance that the move will achieve much, as the ICC has no power to arrest suspects without the cooperation of a country’s government. Russia is not a member of the ICC, which means the court has no jurisdiction there. Putin is the third president, who has been issued an arrest warrant by the ICC.

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What did ICC say on Putin?

The ICC said on Friday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes over his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of children from Ukraine. The ICC said in a statement that Putin was “allegedly responsible for war crimes relating to the illegal deportation of children and illegal transportation of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

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In addition, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the Russian President, in connection with similar allegations. Court President Piotr Hoffmanski said in a video statement that ICC judges have issued warrants, but it will be up to the international community to execute them.