US President Joe Biden has quietly ordered the U.S. government to begin sharing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
This is reported by the New York Times.
According to the publication, American intelligence agencies are said to have gathered information including details about decisions by Russian officials to deliberately strike civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territory.
The NYT notes that the United States has already shared some of that evidence with Ukrainian prosecutors but had refrained from doing so with The Hague.
On 17 March, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. They are accused of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation.