{"id":1983394,"date":"2023-07-26T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-orders-us-to-share-russian-war-crimes-evidence-with-icc-despite-pentagon-concerns-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:54:58","slug":"biden-orders-us-to-share-russian-war-crimes-evidence-with-icc-despite-pentagon-concerns-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-orders-us-to-share-russian-war-crimes-evidence-with-icc-despite-pentagon-concerns-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden directs US to share Russian war crimes evidence with ICC, despite Pentagon worries: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-orders-us-to-share-russian-war-crimes-evidence-with-icc-despite-pentagon-concerns-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Biden Orders Sharing of Evidence of Russian War\u2062 Crimes with International Criminal Court<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden has reportedly made the decision to share evidence of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court\u200d (ICC). This \u200cmove, which\u2062 was first reported by the New \u2062York Times, comes despite opposition from the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<h3>Commitment \u2063to Accountability<\/h3>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/xi-to-biden-us-playing-with-fire-on-taiwan\/\" title=\"Xi to Biden: US \u2018Playing with Fire\u2019 on Taiwan\">national security spokesperson<\/a>, while not\u2063 confirming the president&#8217;s decision directly, emphasized the administration&#8217;s commitment to\u200d holding perpetrators and enablers of war crimes accountable. They stated, &#8220;Since the \u200dbeginning of Russia&#8217;s assault on Ukraine, the\u200c president has been clear: There needs to be accountability for the \u2064perpetrators and enablers of war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b spokesperson further highlighted the \u200cadministration&#8217;s support \u2064for international investigations conducted\u200c by various entities, including Ukraine&#8217;s Office of the Prosecutor General, the Joint Investigative Team through Eurojust, \u200cthe United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission, \u2064and\u2063 the Expert Missions established under the OSCE&#8217;s &#8220;Moscow\u200d Mechanism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They \u200balso mentioned the deployment of international investigators and prosecutors to assist Ukraine&#8217;s Office of the Prosecutor \u2063General in documenting and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-orders-us-to-share-russian-war-crimes-evidence-with-icc-despite-pentagon-concerns-report\/\" title=\"Biden directs US to share Russian war crimes evidence with ICC, despite Pentagon worries: Report.\">preparing war crimes cases<\/a> for prosecution. Additionally, the Department\u2063 of Justice has \u200bentered into a\u2063 Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate with Ukraine on investigations and prosecutions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duss-boosts-omar-tweet-praising-court-decision-to-investigate-israeli-war-crimes\/\" title=\"Duss Boosts Omar Tweet Praising Court Decision to Investigate Israeli \u2018War Crimes\u2019\">war crimes committed<\/a> during Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns and Policy Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tuberville-fight-escalates-amid-pentagon-promotions-pileup\/\" title=\"Biden-Tuberville feud intensifies over Pentagon promotions backlog.\">previously \u2063expressed concerns<\/a>\u200c about\u200c reciprocity and the protection of U.S. military personnel. However, Congress modified policies last year to aid\u200b the ICC in prosecuting Russian war crimes.<\/p>\n<h3>ICC Arrest Warrants and Kremlin&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for forcibly \u200bdeporting \u2063thousands of children to Russia for political reeducation training. They also issued an \u2064arrest warrant for Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the commissioner for children&#8217;s \u2064rights\u2064 in the Office\u2062 of the President of \u200bthe Russian Federation, who they said shared responsibility for the deportations.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064Kremlin swiftly denounced and dismissed the warrant. However, it has resulted in Putin \u2063being unable to attend an economic \u200csummit in Johannesburg, South \u2064Africa, next \u2063month, as officials there would be obligated to\u2063 arrest him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has instructed his administration to provide evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court, despite objections from the Department of Defense. This decision, reported by the New York Times, follows Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea of &#8216;not guilty&#8217; after a judge rejected his initial plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}