Russia`s ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that tries to arrest Vladimir Putin overseas after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant in opposition to him could be visible with the aid of using Moscow as a “assertion of battle”. Medvedev, who served as president among 2008 and 2012, has made an increasing number of hawkish speeches seeing that Putin despatched troops to Ukraine, time and again issuing nuclear threats.
Late on Wednesday, he stated Russian guns could hit a rustic if it arrested Putin. The ICC, primarily based totally in The Hague, final week introduced an arrest warrant for the Russian leader, accused of deporting Ukrainian children.
“Let’s imagine — it is clean that that is a state of affairs as a way to by no means happen — however although lets say it does,” the Putin best friend stated. “The contemporary head of a nuclear nation arrives at the territory of, say, Germany, and is arrested. What is this? A assertion of battle in opposition to the Russian Federation.”
Medvedev stated that if this happened “all of our means, rockets and others, will fly at the Bundestag, withinside the Chancellor’s Office and so on.” Medvedev — who’s deputy chairman of Russia’s protection council — stated the ICC’s selection will make dire members of the family with the West plunge further.
His feedback got here days after Russia opened a crook research into ICC prosecutor Karim Khan and numerous different ICC judges, pronouncing their selection was “unlawful”. The Hague-primarily based totally courtroom docket had additionally issued a warrant in opposition to Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s presidential commissioner for kid’s rights.
On Wednesday, the ICC’s legislative frame stated it regretted “threats” in opposition to the tribunal over its warrant. “The presidency of the meeting regrets those tries to avoid worldwide efforts to make sure duty for acts which might be prohibited beneathneath preferred worldwide law,” it stated in a statement.