The authorities of Austria have affirmed this Tuesday that they will arrest the Russian president, Vladimir Putinif you enter the country following the order issued at the end of March by the International Criminal Court (ICC) under the presumption of war crime for the forced deportation of Ukrainian children from areas captured during the war in Ukraine the Russian territory.
Thus, the Austrian Minister for the European Union and Constitutional Affairs, Karoline Edtstadlerhas indicated in an interview with the newspaper Tagesspiegel that “if Putin dare to step Austria will be arrested.”
“Austria will comply with its obligations within the framework of International Law and current legislation and will adhere to the current arrest warrant issued by the TPI contra Putin“, has clarified before stating that before working for the Government she was a criminal judge.
WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT UKRAINE
It has also ensured that Austria will continue to provide aid to Ukraine, although he recalled that the country remains “militarily neutral”. “This does not imply that we are politically neutral,” she has maintained.
“We show our solidarity with the Ukrainian people, we support them on economic and humanitarian issues, but not when it comes to sending weapons,” he explained. On this issue, he has qualified, however, that “although it is not indirectly involved, the country does not block the decisions of the European Union” about sending this kind of assistance. “Neutrality does not prevent the country from providing help and support to Ukraine in other areas,” he said.
He TPI understands that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Putin “has individual criminal responsibility” for the aforementioned crimes, either for his “direct” commission or for having been unable to “exercise adequate control over the civilian and military subordinates who committed the crimes.” acts”.
He Kremlin has consistently denied that it is forcibly deporting Ukrainian children in the face of accusations made by Kiev and their allies. According to the Ukrainian government, at least 16,000 children have ended up displaced against their will to Russian territory since the beginning of the conflict, while a recent study presented in February by Yale University denounced at least 6,000 Ukrainian children distributed among 40 Russian boarding schools. (EUROPE PRESS)