Putin’s “travel options have been extremely limited”.
Luke Harding
International Criminal Court sources said they believed that was now “highly unlikely”. Vladimir Putin will travel to any country that currently supports Ukraine. If he did so, he was at risk of arrest, they pointed out.
They said it was possible Putin would still fly to China, which has not signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that obliges governments to comply with ICC warrants.
“The travel options of the Russian president have been extremely limited,” the source said.
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Andrew Roth
It international criminal courtVladimir Putin’s arrest warrant is likely to be presented as irreversible in Russia, where the Kremlin will spread the court order as evidence that the West is not seeking regime change.
While Putin has already been preparing his public for a long war, the arrest warrant will raise for the first time the concrete possibility that Russian leaders and other prominent supporters of the war could face justice in The Hague if they are ever caught.
While this is unlikely in the near term, Russia will likely use it to raise the stakes of the war domestically and also, when it wants, to argue that any talks are mere smokescreens for the ultimate goal of ousting Putin.
“The West is showing that it is ready to go all the way,” he said Vladlen Tatarsky, One of the most popular Russian influential military bloggers. “They are betting on creating a split within Russia that wants to oust Putin.”
But we are the ones who are ready to go with our president to victory, no matter what [victory] looks alike. How much does it cost: Because now there is no turning back. Remember that.”
Hundreds of Ukrainian children have been transferred from orphanages to Russia, says the ICC prosecutor
Karim KhanThe chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague has said that hundreds of Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia from orphanages and orphanages.
He added.
Many of these children, we claim, have since been put up for adoption in the Russian Federation.
Khan launched an investigation a year ago into possible war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Ukraine.
Ukraine has said that more than 16,000 children have been illegally transported to Russia or to Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine.
Patrick Wintour
The person in charge of EU foreign policy. Josep Borel, The ICC’s decision to detain Vladimir Putin for the war crime of illegal deportation from Ukraine and transfer of children to Russia is “the beginning of the process of accountability. We appreciate and support the work of the ICC.”
His reference to the launch of the accountability process is intended to show that the EU is not abandoning support for a special tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression, a proposal that Ukraine defends as necessary to bring Russia’s leadership to heel. to justice as a whole.
There is tension between the ICC and the Ukrainian authorities on whether this special tribunal is needed. The ICC sought to demonstrate that no other body was needed and that it had the will, means and authority to confront Russia’s leadership.
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin is a “wake-up call to others who commit abuses or cover them up.” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
Balkis Jarrah, HRW’s deputy director for international justice, said in a statement.
This is a big day for the many victims of crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine since 2014. With these arrest warrants, the ICC made Putin a wanted man and took its first step toward ending the impunity that has fueled the perpetrators of the war against Russia. Ukraine too long.
Putin and his children’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, “sends a clear message that ordering the commission or tolerance of serious crimes against civilians could lead to a prison cell in The Hague,” the statement continued.
Dan Sabbagh
A senior NATO official says there is no sign yet Beijing supplying lethal aid to Moscow, but that was not taken off the table either.
As for China, there is still no sign of Beijing providing lethal aid to Moscow, but a senior NATO official warns that is not off the table either. Not surprisingly, intense Western attention is on this
— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) March 17, 2023
Dan Sabbagh
According to a senior NATO official, Russia is suffering up to 1,500 casualties a day during its current offensive, mostly in the eastern city of Bakhmut.
Ukraine is taking “an order of magnitude less” in the fighting, where “several thousand” shells are fired by both sides a day, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official added that it is not clear how long the fight for Bakhmut will continue. Grim, intense fighting is taking place on the city’s front lines, which runs along a river that has become a “killing zone,” they say.
Although Ukrainian ammunition costs exceeded Western production, the official said there was no sign that Ukrainian forces were losing the city.
Russia is suffering “1,200, 1,300, even 1,500” casualties a day during its current offensive, mostly in Bakhmut. The ratio of dead to wounded is one to three, a senior NATO official said on condition of anonymity.
— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) March 17, 2023
Ukraine admits to “magnitude less” (no number) in the fighting, where “several thousand” shells are consumed by both sides per day.
— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) March 17, 2023
It is not clear how long the struggle for Bakhmut will continue. The front line of the city runs along the river, which has become a “killing zone”. Gritty, intense combat, although the marks of shelling are toned down a bit
— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) March 17, 2023
Estoniaof the Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, writes that the decision of the ICC “is a step closer to the day of judgment”.
The court’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin sends a “historic signal. “All the atrocities against Ukraine stem from the criminal policy of the Russian leaders,” Kallas wrote.
He added:
Remind that no one is immune, not even the heads of state. The Russian regime will be held accountable.
Walk closer to doomsday.
On the first petition for detention #Putin, #ICC: sends a historical signal. All the atrocities against Ukraine stem from the criminal policy of the Russian leaders.
Remind that no one is immune, not even the heads of state. The Russian regime will be held accountable. https://t.co/WWddPzuNfd
— Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) March 17, 2023
Kremlin He also responded to the ICC’s decision to arrest Putin, saying it did not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia found the issues raised by the ICC “outrageous and unacceptable”.
Any decision of the court against Russia is “invalid”, he said.
When asked whether the Russian president is now afraid to travel to countries that have recognized the ICC, Peskov said:
I have nothing to add on this topic. That’s all we want to say.
Maria Lvova-Belova, The Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights responded to the news that the Hague International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him for the war crime of illegal deportation of children from Ukraine.
Lvova-Belova, speaking to the Russian state agency RIA new, said:
It is great that the international community appreciated this work to help the children of our country. that we do not leave them in war zones, that we take them out, that we create good conditions for them, that we surround them with loving, caring people;
Putin’s “travel options have been extremely limited”.
Luke Harding
International Criminal Court sources said they believed that was now “highly unlikely”. Vladimir Putin will travel to any country that currently supports Ukraine. If he did so, he was at risk of arrest, they pointed out.
They said it was possible Putin would still fly to China, which has not signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that obliges governments to comply with ICC warrants.
“The travel options of the Russian president have been extremely limited,” the source said.