karim khan, the icc s chief prosecutor. she joins us from the hague. cnn s matthew chance is monitoring russian reaction. he joins us as well as does cnn s ivan watson from ukraine. this is a story he and 360 have been reporting on extensively. we start things off with carissa ward and her interview at the hague. carissa. reporter: john, well, karim khan was keen to tell us that this is really just the first step in what promises to be a long journey. the arrest warrants that were given out today for president putin and also for the russia high commissioner for children maria l vova-belova, these are just the first two essentially. there may be more coming. there may be other areas that they will be exploring. there is no shortage of alleged war crimes that have taken place in ukraine. the prosecutor s office here from the icc have made multiple trips to ukraine. but they were keen really to stress the importance of this historic day. take a look. there are many differe
bucha in mariupol. the children know by heart the names of places atrocities have been committed. as we said, it really is something that your daughter knew the names of these places. even though these icc charges aren t related to those atrocities, what do you think that this moment, this historic moment represents for the people in ukraine? i think that you see even a child knows. the evidence is on the surface. you cannot pretend you are blind and don t see them. even a child could tell you the names of these cities. and unfortunately, since then a lot of more places were heavily destroyed. a lot of more crimes happened. and unfortunately, putin, he doesn t he doesn t care about this decision. i mean, i welcome this decision, but this decision doesn t stop putin right now. and unfortunately as we are talking right now putin continues destroying ukraine and killing people in ukraine.