BREAKING: The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.
The ICC announced the warrant on Friday, and said he was “allegedly responsible 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.”
A day earlier, United Nations investigators concluded that Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children qualifies as “a war crime.
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