International court issues arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin, Zelenskyy calls the decision 'historic'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commended on Friday the International Criminal Court for issuing a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin's arrest, calling it a "historic decision".

The ICC said Friday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.

"This is a historic decision that will lead to historic responsibility. The head of a terrorist state and another Russian official have officially become suspects in a war crime. In the deportation of Ukrainian children - the illegal transfer of thousands of our children to the territory of a terrorist state. In the criminal proceedings being investigated by our law enforcement officers, more than 16 thousand cases of forced deportation of Ukrainian children by the occupier have already been recorded. But the real, full number of deportees may be much higher."

"It would be impossible to carry out such a criminal operation without the order of the top leader of the terrorist state," said Zelenskyy in his nightly video-address.

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