Putin accused of war crimes

The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant accuses Russian president Vladimir Putin of war crimes including the unlawful deportation of children to Russia from occupied areas of Ukraine


INDICTMENT
ICC also issues warrant on same charge for Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner
for Children’s Rights, who has herself “adopted” 15-year-old boy from Mariupol

CHILDREN INVOLVED
Russia admits holding at least 1,400 Ukrainian “orphans”, but says at least 2,000 children travelled to Russia unaccompanied

Ukraine puts number of children forcibly taken to Russia at 16,221

Russia has held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children, and likely many more, in 43 camps in Russia and Crimea for purposes of political re-education, according to study by Yale University


UKRAINE
NORWAY
Moscow
Crimea: Annexed by Russia in 2014
FINLAND
Arctic Ocean
RUSSIA
MONGOLIA
CHINA
JAPAN

6 camps 
1 camp


Sources: Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health, Reuters
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