Russian president Vladimir Putin in Mariupol: Is the ‘arrest’ process effectively at a dead end just 48 hours after the issuing of the ICC warrants? Photograph: AP/PA

While Russia is correct that because it doesn’t recognise the International Criminal Court (ICC) it’s not obliged to comply with the warrants issued for Vladimir Putin on Friday, the problem for Putin is that if he now sets foot in any of the court’s 123 member states, he faces swift arrest.…

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