Russia has evacuated orphanages from Ukraine war zones, says Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Russia had evacuated children from orphanages in war zones in Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in March issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin and Russia's commissioner for children, accusing them of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

Lavrov, speaking at a news conference, accused the West of hypocrisy for attacking Russia over its alleged human rights abuses in Ukraine while, in his view, ignoring "racist" statements by Ukrainian authorities about killing Russians.