Russia's President Vladimir Putin has issued an arrest warrant for International Criminal Court British prosecutor Karim Khan.
This is after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin for allegations of overseeing the kidnapping of children from Ukraine.
According to the Guardian, Russia's interior ministry was seeking to detain the ICC prosecutor.
The ICC, in March, sought to arrest Putin alongside Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.
The Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for the duo on allegations they oversaw the deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.
It is claimed the children were then placed to live with Russian families.
Neither Putin nor Lvova-Belova has denied the claims.
Though in February Lvova-Belova disclosed that she “adopted” a 15-year-old child from Mariupol, Ukraine.
The year before these accusations came to the public glare, Khan visited Ukraine four times.
Following the visit, the ICC prosecutor ruled that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility” for the child abductions.
Putin is being accused of abducting more than 16,000 children from Ukraine since he invaded the country last year.
Russia's investigative committee named Khan alongside three other ICC judges in a criminal case where they were being accused of "making false accusations of guilt and of preparing an attack on a representative of a foreign state."
Khan was elected an ICC prosecutor in February 2021.
