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International A crime According to the warrant of the Court (BCM). the president Vladimir PutinAny attempt to arrest him will be considered as a declaration of war against Russia.
This was announced on March 23 by Putin’s close ally, his deputy in the Security Council, ex the president Dmitry Medvedev said.
The ICC issued the warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest last week. He is accused of illegally transporting hundreds of children from Ukraine to Russia.
ICC said that it is a serious war crime and Putin is directly responsible for this crime.
Medvedev, according to Reuters news agency Russia told the media that RussiaChina and USABesides, the ICC warrant, which is not recognized by a number of countries, is a “legal nullity” for Moscow.
But according to him, despite this, any attempt to arrest him will be regarded as a declaration of war against Russia:
“Let’s imagine such a situation. It is true that such an event will never happen, but let’s imagine again: the head of a nuclear country goes to a territory, let’s say Germany, and imprisonment is being What will happen then? this is Russia It will be considered a declaration of war on the Federation. Then, whatever we have, all our rockets and so on will fly to the Bundestag, the chancellor’s office.”
The Kremlin says that the ICC imprisonment the warrant will cause outrage political is a decision, but it has no power for Russia.
Russian officials that Moscow committed in Ukraine military denying the crimes and saying on the contrary that of Ukraine the crimes he committed were ignored.
Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked intervention in Ukraine in February of last year led to the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since World War II and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in Europe.
As for relations with the West, Medvedev said that these relations are now worse than ever.
20In 2012-08 the president Medvedev presented himself as a pro-Western reformer.
But since the start of the war, he has become one of the most belligerent officials in Russia, insulting Western leaders and threatening them with nuclear strikes.
He said that there is currently a high risk of nuclear war.
“Every day that foreign weapons are transported to Ukraine brings the nuclear apocalypse a little closer.”
Medvedev said that since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the West considered itself the master of Russia, but Putin put an end to it.
He claimed that the independence of Russia and China irritates the West, and the West wants to break Russia and China into small and weak states and rob them of their natural resources.
Putin declared that the conflict in Ukraine is a life-and-death war between Russia and the “arrogant and aggressive” West.
The West rejects claims that it wants Russia to break up and says it is supporting Ukraine to defend itself against Putin’s imperial usurpation.
USA and NATO said that Ukraine will be supported “as much as necessary” in this struggle.