Defence Secretary John Healey says he dreams of detaining Vladimir Putin and putting him on trial for his crimes like Maduro
The Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, 65, spoke after a fatal drone strike of a residential block tower, which killed four, on January 9 in Kyiv.
Defence Secretary John Healey has said he would 'take' Russian President Vladimir Putin 'into custody and hold him to account for his war crimes'.
The Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, 65, spoke after a fatal drone strike of a residential block tower, which killed four, on January 9 in Kyiv.
When asked if he would kidnap any world leader, Healey said he would 'take' the Kremlin leader and 'hold him to account' for the war crimes he has committed.
He said these included what he saw in Bucha on his first visits to the country and 'the abduction of some of the Ukrainian kids that I met in Irpin.'
Bucha, a northwest suburb in the Ukrainian capital, became a symbol of the Kremlin's vicious war crimes after mass graves were found in April 2022 following the expulsion of Russian troops.
More than 1,400 civilian killings have been documented in the district, with 637 in the suburb, and 37 of those being children, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March 2023 over Moscow's illegal deportation of civilians, including children, to Russia from occupied areas of Ukraine.
It comes as US special forces captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in a shock raid in the capital of Caracas last week.
The president raced to close a 6inch thick steel safe room door just seconds before he and his wife Cilia were snatched by the US.
Defence Secretary John Healey meets emergency service workers at the scene of last night's drone attack in Kyiv
An airstrike hitting a residential tower block in Kyiv on January 9
Meanwhile, Mr Trump compared the raid to a 'television show' and suggested it was the greatest military operation since World War II.
Maduro faces drug trafficking charges in New York, as top Venezuelan officials are accused of working with international drug trafficking rings to syphon drugs into the US.
Elsewhere in Kyiv, the Defence Secretary stood before the carnage caused by brutal drone attacks which killed at least four and injured 24 others. Among the dead was a paramedic.
The airstrike also saw hundreds of thousands without electricity as temperatures are set to plummet to −17°C over the weekend.
Pointing to the wreckage, he said it tells you 'all you need to know about President Putin and his determination not just to wage a war on Ukraine, but to target civilians, cities, [as well as] the infrastructure people depend on during the frosty winter.