International Efforts to Pursue Justice for Russian Aggression in Ukraine

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has urged the world to enforce international law by trying those accused of war crimes in Ukraine, following the court's action against Vladimir Putin. Khan also challenged the Kremlin to allow Ukrainian children abducted to Russia to return home, after his court issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Russia’s children’s commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, on the grounds that they had overseen the forcible transfer of thousands of children. Russia has rejected the ICC charges, calling the move unacceptable and saying it has no legal force in Russia.