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The International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, commissioner for children’s rights, alleging Moscow’s forcible deportation of Ukrainian children is a war crime.
Russia has not concealed a program under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia but presents it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the conflict zone.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia found the very questions raised by the ICC “outrageous and unacceptable,” and that any decisions of the court were “null and void” with respect to Russia.
Moscow’s forces have been accused of multiple abuses during Russia’s year-old invasion of its neighbour Ukraine, including by a U.N.-mandated investigative body that this week described soldiers making children watch loved ones being raped.