The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of unlawfully deporting children from Ukraine, obliging its 123 member states to arrest him if he enters their territory. The Kremlin called it null and void.
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Russian gas giant Gazprom’s net profit fell more than threefold in 2022 under Russian accounting standards, Kommersant reports, as gas supplies to Europe dropped to historic lows following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and customers moved away from Russian gas.
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Wagner Group owner Yevgeny Prigozhin has likely lost access to recruiting in Russian prisons amid his feud with the Defence Ministry, UK intelligence says, estimating about half of the convicts Wagner deployed have become casualties and new recruitment won’t fill the gap.
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Russia’s children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova effectively confirmed that Moscow uses a variety of schemes to deport Ukrainian children to Russia, in comments meant to rebut Western accusations of illegality, the Institute for the Study of War says.
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Iran secretly supplied Russia with large quantities of bullets, rockets and mortar shells for its war in Ukraine, Sky News reports, citing a source who said two Russian-flagged cargo ships carried about 100 million rounds and 300,000 shells across the Caspian in January.
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Trade between China and Russia grew at a double-digit pace in January and February 2023, rising 25.9% from a year earlier to more than $33.6 billion, Chinese customs data show, as Beijing deepens economic ties with Moscow despite Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the creation of an International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, to be based in The Hague within Eurojust, as a first step towards holding Russia’s leadership to account.
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