Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to travel abroad next week despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for war crimes in Ukraine, prompting Kiev to call on Mongolia to meet its international obligations and arrest him.

Putin is scheduled to visit Mongolia on Tuesday and the country recognizes the ICC's jurisdiction and is therefore bound to comply with the international court's March 2023 arrest warrant, but Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov is not considering the threat of arrest.

"We are not worried. We are having a wonderful dialogue with our friends in Mongolia," Peskov said.

This is Putin's first visit to an ICC member state since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Putin travels to Mongolia at the invitation of President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh in order to expand cooperation between the two countries, according to the Kremlin.

Mongolia maintains good relations with powerful neighbors such as Russia and China, but also with the West.

Since Mongolia is economically dependent on Russia, it is considered impossible for the country to jeopardize these relations by arresting Putin.

The ICC says Putin is responsible for the abduction and deportation of children and minors from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. Moscow rejects this and replies that it is about evacuations.

After Putin's announced visit to Mongolia on September 3, Ukraine called on the government in Ulaanbaatar to arrest the Russian president.

"We call on the authorities in Mongolia to respect the mandatory international arrest warrant and extradite Putin to the International Criminal Court in The Hague," Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said on Telegram.