Legal experts are warning the international system makes pursuing the Russian president difficult. One of Australia's ex-prime ministers is part of a group aiming to change that.
The international system is ill-equipped to pursue Vladimir Putin over war crimes.
The Russian government flatly denies committing the atrocities, though the United Nations in December corroborated the murder of at least 441 Ukrainian civilians, warning the number is likely "significantly higher".Anadolu Agency Mr Turnbull is one of more than 100 world leaders and legal experts calling for a special tribunal, established by like-minded countries, to break that deadlock. He warned failing to act would send a dangerous message to autocrats: you can act with impunity."We have to hold Putin, and those who have done his bidding, to account for their crimes. If we don't do so, we encourage them to commit more crimes, and we commit others to do the same," he said.
"This will be a sword of Damocles that hangs over Putin's head, and over the heads of other war criminals in Ukraine. They can never be entirely certain whether and when it will fall ... Every tyrant knows that, one way or another, their rule will come to an end." He said prosecutors would rely on the "large body" of physical evidence of Russian atrocities, and the intent of Mr Putin and his followers.
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