it is the top of a very busy friday afternoon on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. the enter national criminal court issued an arrest warrant for vladamir putin today. the charge, related to deporting thousands of ukrainian children from occupied territories of ukraine into russia. a warrant is also out for the official under putin who is believed to have led to the forced adoptions, you see her in this photo with putin. ukraine reports at least 16,000 children have been forced to live in russia since putin s war in ukraine began. the kremlin calls the warrant outrageous and unacceptable, volodymyr zelenskyy says this will lead to historic responsibility. joining us now is the president of the international criminal court, judge piotr hofmanski. judge, thank you for joining us today. so i want to read from the icc statement here in your ruling. it states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that mr. putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementione
are not forgotten, and we are just doing what is expected from us. now that the neither the united states or russia are cig t signatories. are you asking officials in these other countries to arrest mr. putin if he does travel? all the state parties have a legal obligation to cooperate fully with the court, which means that they re obliged to execute arrest warrants issued by the court. and it is, indeed, one of the most this is a kind of sanction, because a person cannot believe the country traveling. there are 123 states in which he