An arrest warrant has been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

ICC issued the arrest warrant over the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.

That a conflict situation has been raging on between Russian and the neighouring country of Ukraine is now old news. of course like in any situation of this sort, casualties contnue mounting with smaller Ukraine bearing the greater brunt.

The entire world has kept a nervous eye on this ongoing in these two countries from where a greater part of the European continent get their gas. That this conflict has noticable affected the price of heating and cooking gas in Europe is obvious.

Which country in the conflict that the Western powers and particularly the NATO countries seem to be aligning with is also not a hidden fact as the news media and propaganda machinery from these parts of the world are awash with reports making Russia the big bad wolf land and their leader President Vladimir Putin the original boogie man.

That in truth the cold war has really not ended but has gone into a silent and more omnious stance has kept the involved world like cats on hot tin roofs.

There that the ICC in a statement released on Friday has issue a warrant for the arrest of Putin is not surprising to anyone. In fact to some, it is long over do. The ICC stated that the warrant became necessary following the applications submitted by the prosecution on February 22, 2023.

It said Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the crimes committed in Ukrainian territory from February 24, 2022.

The court, based in the Netherlands, said its pre-trial judges had assessed, “There are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes.”

It added that Putin had failed to “exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who was under his effective authority and control.”

The ICC said, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Putin’s presidential commissioner for children’s rights, is also alleged to have committed similar crimes.

Are we going to have another Monotovich? We wait and see.