8/9/2024 — Ukraine Asks Mexico to Arrest Putin if He Attends Inauguration

In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin on allegations of war crimes over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia following Moscow’s invasion in 2022.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Kazakh President on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states leaders’ summit in Astana on July 3, 2024. (Photo by Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP)

From: Kyiv Post — The Ukrainian embassy in Mexico on Wednesday asked the Mexican government to arrest Russian leader Vladimir Putin if he attends the inauguration that he was invited to of president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.

Kyiv’s delegation, which called Putin a “war criminal,” also thanked Mexico for extending an invitation to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky for the ceremony on October 1.

“We are confident that the Mexican government would comply in any case with the international arrest warrant by handing over the aforementioned (Putin) to the United Nations judicial body in The Hague,” the Ukrainian embassy said in a statement.

In March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin on allegations of war crimes over the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia following Moscow’s invasion in early 2022.

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