Russian President Vladimir Putin remains a wanted man by the International Criminal Court (ICC), yet he faced no arrest threat during his visit in Alaska and ahead of a potential peace summit with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in Europe .

The ICC issued a warrant against Putin in March 2023 for alleged war crimes, specifically the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. The Kremlin denies the charge.

So far, this warrant has been largely symbolic.

The court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, has no enforcement arm and relies on member states to arrest suspects.

Currently 125 states have ratified the ICC: 19 in the Asia-Pacific , 28 in Latin America and the Caribbean , 33 in Africa , and 45 in Europe, meaning Putin could, in theory, be arrested in most parts

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