Russia-Ukraine War News: Biden Says Putin’s ICC Arrest Warrant Is Justified
President Biden has said the International Criminal Court is “justified” to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has “clearly committed war crimes”.
The ICC on Friday issued arrest warrants for Putin and Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, accusing them of involvement in the abduction and deportation of children from Ukraine to territories occupied by Russia. Ukraine is investigating 16,000 cases of forced removals. (Neither the United States nor Russia recognizes the jurisdiction of the ICC.)
Here is the latest news on the war and its ripple effects around the world.
War forces thousands of disabled Ukrainians into institutions: Thousands of elderly disabled Ukrainians, who were displaced after the Russian invasion, have been institutionalized. Housed in Soviet-era institutions with limited resources and limited mobility, they suffer some of the most devastating consequences of the war, report Steve Hendrix, Amanda Morris and Siobhán O’Grady.
Viktor Krivoruchko, 54, was taken to a nursing home near the central city of Uman, where he said his passport had been confiscated, the air reeked of human excrement and staff regularly failed to change the diaper of one of his roommates, a double amputee.
“It’s better for me to be under shelling than to be there,” Krivoruchko said. “It was living hell.”
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