INTRO: Vice President J-D Vance addressing recent comments made by U-S Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” for releasing Stephen Hubbard, an American that had been held prisoner in Russia for years.
ACK: Vice President J-D Vance
TAG: Russian President Vladimir Putin currently has an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for various war crimes related to the invasion of Ukraine, including forcibly deporting thousands of children from occupied areas of Ukraine. The invasion has caused somewhere between one and two million casualties, according to recent reports. Russian officials had imprisoned Hubbard for more than four years for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. The U-S government had designated Hubbard as “wrongfully detained” under the Biden administration.
KEYWORD: Politics, Legal, Crime, International
