President Joe Biden said on March 17 that he thinks it’s “justified” that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes, but he admitted that the move is mostly symbolic because neither Russia nor the United States recognizes the court’s jurisdiction.
“I think it’s justified,” Biden told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. “It’s not recognized internationally [nor] by us. … But I think it makes a very strong point.”
Biden later told reporters that he believes Putin had “clearly committed war crimes.”
ICC President Piotr Hofmanski said in a video statement on March 17 that an arrest warrant had been issued for Putin for the “alleged war crimes of deportation of children from Ukrainian occupied territories into the Russian Federation.”…