hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, markets and the like. it s a bit too early in the ukraine conflict to prove that, but this is exactly what human rights watch is looking at, exactly what the international criminal court will look at. if they can get direct evidence of ordering war crimes, that s one route. but the more likely route is that putin was aware of these atrocities taking place and didn t take steps to stop it. if that can be demonstrated, then he is indeed responsible for war crimes and can be brought to justice by the icc. now, putin may be sitting there in the kremlin what do i worry about, who s going to come get me, i ve got nuclear weapons. there have been other presidents in this situation that thought they were untouchable. slobodan milosevic, who signed off on the dayton peace accord, never bothered asking for amnesty. because the government changed and it wanted to show it was reformist and it was convenient to hand milosevic to the hague.