War-Crimes Warrant for Putin Could Complicate Ukraine Peace

War-Crimes Warrant for Putin Could Complicate Ukraine Peace

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An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of the man whose country invaded Ukraine facing justice, but it complicates efforts to end that war in peace talks…Both justice and peace appear to be only remote possibilities today, and the conflicting relationship between the two is a quandary at the heart of a March 17 decision by the International Criminal Court to seek the Russian leader’s arrest…Judges in The Hague found “reasonable grounds to believe” that Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights were responsible for war crimes, specifically the unlawful deportation and unlawful transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.

 

War-Crimes Warrant for Putin Could Complicate Ukraine Peace

War-Crimes Warrant for Putin Could Complicate Ukraine Peace

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