Ukraine: International arrest warrant should be complied with

• Putin and his children’s rights commissioner have been named in an arrest warrant.
• Issued by the ICC for war crimes.
• And unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.

Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that “the international warrant must be complied with” in a tweet on Sunday.

He continued: “It is symbolic that Germany was the first to make it clear that if ‘suspect Putin VV’ appears in their jurisdiction, he will be arrested immediately.”

President Putin and his children’s rights commissioner were both named in an arrest warrant issued on Friday by judges of the International Criminal Court for allegedly committing war crimes and “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children.

Andriy Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said that President Putin “has the official status of a suspect in the commission of an international crime.”

“The world has received a signal that the Russian regime is criminal and that its leadership and accomplices will be brought to justice,” Kostin added.

Kostin, in a statement released on Telegram, said that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office “has submitted more than 40 volumes of materials to the ICC – more than 1000 pages.”

“In total, the proceedings in which the Prosecutor General’s Office provides procedural guidance have documented the deportation of more than 16,000 children from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions.”

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