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US Senators ask Biden to help ICC with Putin war crimes probe

Emergency personnel work at a site in Dnipro, Ukraine, where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile on January 16 [File: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]

A bipartisan group of United States Senators have asked President Joe Biden to share information with the International Criminal Court (ICC), as it pursues charges of war crimes against Russian President Vladimir Putin over the “unlawful deportation” of children from Ukraine.

On Friday, six Democratic and Republican Senators sent a letter to Biden urging him to support the ICC, which issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest last week, more than a year after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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