Dmitri Medvedev issued the warning after the arrest warrant for the Russian president by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the context of the deportation of children in Ukraine.
After the attempted arrest against Vladimir putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Dmitri Medvedev, number two on the Russian Security Council, pointed out that the arrest of the president of Russia would amount to a declaration of war.
The official stated it in statements to the press on Wednesday: “Let’s imagine the situation (…) The head of state of a nuclear power goes, let’s say, to Germany, and is arrested. What’s that? A declaration of war against Russia” .
“All of our capabilities, such as missiles and others, will be directed against the Bundestag (German parliament), the chancellor’s office and so on,” Medvedev said.
The threat by the official comes after the Attorney General of Ukraine, Andrei Kostin, signed this Thursday in The Hague together with the secretary of the International Criminal Court, Peter Lewis, an agreement on the opening of an ICC representation in Ukraine.
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Attempted ICC arrest of Putin
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Friday that it had issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putinfor the deportation of children in areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia.
In response, from Moscow government sources described the measure as “null” and “nonsense”. In fact, the former Russian president Medvedev compares Putin’s arrest warrant to toilet paper
The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for the same reason, considered a war crime, against Maria Alexeyevna Lvova-BelovaPresidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, specified the court based in the Dutch city of The Hague.
The European Union assured that the arrest warrant It’s just “the beginning of the process” to criminally prosecute Russian officials for war crimes in Ukraine, the bloc’s office of the High Representative for Foreign Policy said in a statement.
Source: Ambito
