Irish Examiner View: Legal net waits for Putin

As difficult as it may seem at the moment to bring Putin to justice, the former chief prosecutor of UN War Crimes Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has pointed out that the investigation into Slobodan Milosevic began while he was still president of Serbia.

Russian president Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Moscow, last Tuesday. Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Calls for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian president Vladimir Putin may look fanciful at this moment, but with the latest atrocity in Bucha, near Kyiv, where nearly 300 civilians were murdered, it comes one step closer.

“Putin is a war criminal,” the former chief prosecutor of United Nations War Crimes Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has told Swiss newspaper Le Temps.