WAR CRIMES ARREST WARRANT FOR PUTIN

Despot's child abduction rap

- CHRIS HUGHES

VLADIMIR Putin yesterday had an arrest warrant slapped on him for war crimes he has alleged to have committed during the Ukraine war.

The Russian president is accused, among other acts, of abducting thousands of Ukrainian children and forcing them to take Russian citizenship.

The International Criminal Court of [chilsaid Putin, 70, "is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation dren] and that of unlawful transfer of [children] from occupied areas of Ukraine".

His commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, 38, has also had an arrest warrant imposed on her.