Ukraine updates: Scholz welcomes ICC warrant for Putin
20 March 2023 |
7:53 am
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the ICC's arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin showed that "no one is above the law." DW has the latest.
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