The Kremlin says the ICC arrest warrant is an outrageously partisan decision. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the Kremlin chief would amount to a declaration of war against Russia, his ally, former president Dmitry Medvedev, said on Thursday.accusing Mr Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. It said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility.
“Let’s imagine – obviously this situation which will never be realised – but nevertheless, let’s imagine that it was realised: The current head of the nuclear state went to a territory, say Germany, and was arrested,” Mr Medvedev said. Russian officials deny war crimes in Ukraine, and say the West has ignored what it says are Ukrainian war crimes.
Nuclear risks have risen, he said. “Every day’s delivery of foreign weapons to Ukraine brings closer the nuclear apocalypse,” Mr Medvedev said. Mr Putin casts the conflict in Ukraine as an existential struggle to defend Russia against what he sees as an arrogant and aggressive West, which he says wants to cleave Russia apart.
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