Maxim said, "We will protect him - the people of Russia." "Putin! Nobody will arrest him," a man who gave his name only as Daniil, 20, told Reuters. Residents of the Russian capital expressed disbelief at the news. The court also issued a warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's commissioner for children's rights, on the same charges. The United States said there was "no doubt" Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine. "We regard any attacks on the president of the Russian Federation as aggression against our country," he said. "Yankees, hands off Putin!" wrote parliament Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a close ally of the president, on Telegram. Russia, like the United States and China, is not a member of the ICC. 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. The announcement provoked a furious response from Moscow. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the move would lead to "historic accountability", adding that the deportations constituted a policy of "state evil which starts precisely with the top official of this state." ![]() Russia has not concealed a programme 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. Russia denies committing atrocities in UkraineĪMSTERDAM/KYIV, March 17 (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, alleging Moscow's forcible deportation of Ukrainian children is a war crime, as the Kremlin reacted with outrage. ![]() 'Hands off Putin' says Russia's parliament chiefĬomes days before China's President Xi visits Moscow
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