War and Violence Russia’s military strategy for the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 also included deportations: Russian troops systematically abducted children and adolescents from the occupied Ukrainian territories and transported them to re-education camps in Russia. For these war crimes the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued a warrant, on 17th March 2023, for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Expulsion and Deportation as Military Strategies Expulsions and deportations are common instruments of warfare, offer leverage for subsequent peace negotiations and can even be primary military objectives. Particularly in times of war, ostensibly hostile population groups are often systematically deported or expelled even though this is prohibited by international law. Those in power regularly justify such practices as imperative for military strategy and vital to ensure the security GLASS GOBLET, MOLTEN BY WARFARE Ukraine, 2014 In 2014, residents salvaged the molten remains of a glass vessel from the rubble of their house in an eastern Ukrainian village raised by the war. rest of Ukraine. These events forced millions of people to flee and become IDPs. On 24th February 2022, about 150,000 Russian soldiers invaded Ukraine from the north, east and south. Anyone in the occupied territories who did not declare loyalty to Russia had to flee or was expelled. By the end of the year, almost six million people had been internally displaced; in addition, over five million people had sought refuge in other European countries, among them Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
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