The foreign ministry on Monday rejected “mendacious” reports that Hungary had vetoed a joint European Union statement welcoming the International Criminal Court’s decision on Russian officials suspected of war crimes. In a statement to Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, Hungary said it accepted the ICC’s decision to issue a warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, on suspicion of their direct responsibility in the unlawful deportation and transport of Ukrainian children to Russia. Hungary does not wish to comment on the warrant in any way, foreign ministry spokesman Máté Paczolay said in a statement late on Monday, but it will not object to statements made by the high representative or individual member states on the issue, he added.