US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a Senate hearing Wednesday that any party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) should arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he visits their country, Report informs, citing Newsweek.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin on Friday after the court concluded that the Russian leader is “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
Blinken discussed Putin’s recent arrest warrant while appearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on Wednesday, facing questions from South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on whether the US would arrest Putin if he were to visit.