The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin three days ago. The body holds the Russian president directly and personally responsible for crimes committed by Russian forces or groups linked to them in Ukraine. The Hague-based ICC announced last Friday that it had issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the grounds of alleged responsibility for war crimes, and Mariya Lvova-Belova, the children's rights commissioner of Moscow's presidential administration, on suspicion of being personally responsible for the illegal deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia