Russia is planning to hold an informal meeting of the UN Security Council in early April to discuss what it says is the "real situation" of Ukrainian children taken to Russia, an issue that has gained international attention after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for war crimes related to their abduction.
Source: CNBC
Russia's representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said at a press conference on Monday that Russia had allegedly been planning a Security Council meeting long before the ICC announced the warrant. Russia holds the Security Council presidency in April.
The ICC (The Hague Tribunal) said it will seek Putin's arrest because he is "allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawfully deporting children and transferring children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation."
Tetyana Ihnatenko, a lawyer and expert on the ECHR and judicial practice, told Mind about the legal consequences of this arrest warrant for both Putin and Ukraine in her article "Arresting Putin: What are the Legal Consequences of the ICC Decision?"