Biden orders U.S. to share evidence of Russian war crimes with court in The Hague - media

U.S. President Joe Biden secretly ordered the U.S. to start sharing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

That’s according to a report by The New York Times, referring to informed sources, Ukrinform reports.

According to informed officials, such a decision by the American president points to serious changes in U.S. policy.

Previously, the Pentagon claimed that the handover of evidence to the ICC could potentially provoke the prosecution of the American military.

U.S. intelligence agencies have gathered information, including details of Russian officials' decision to deliberately strike civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territory, the report said.

The U.S. has already shared some of the obtained evidence with Ukrainian prosecutors, stopping short of forwarding the documents to the ICC.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the government of South Africa had officially applied to the court for a warrant for the arrest of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in case he arrives in the country.

On March 17, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, along with his Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, on charges of the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories to Russia