Russia convenes UN Security Council meeting on deportation of Ukrainian children - AP

The Guardian reports this with reference to AP. 

According to the agency, during the meeting, the Russian Federation, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council in April, intends to describe the "real situation" with Ukrainian children taken to Russia.

This issue arose after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes related to the abduction of children.

At the same time, Russian representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said on March 20 that Moscow had allegedly been planning the meeting long before the ICC's decision. He also called the issue of the children "totally overblown" and said that Moscow wants to explain at the Security Council meeting, tentatively on April 6, that they were taken to Russia "simply because we wanted to spare them of the danger that military activities may bring."

• On March 17, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova.

• Representatives of various states and international organizations reacted to the ICC's decision. They were later joined by representatives of the United Kingdom and Canada, who unambiguously supported the court's position.

• U.S. President Joe Biden said that the ICC's arrest warrant for Putin was justified because the Russian president had committed war crimes.

• On March 19, Germany announced that it would be obliged to detain Vladimir Putin if he appeared in the country to comply with the International Criminal Court's decision. 

• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reacted to the ICC's decision and emphasized that Russia would be held accountable for every act of terror against Ukraine and its people.

• On March 20, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev threatened a precision strike on the building of the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.