Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov considers the statement of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in which the head of the court expresses his intention to cooperate with Moscow on the situation in Ukraine, to be absurd and senseless.
“What absurdity. We do not accept the jurisdiction of this court. We do not consider his verdicts to be legitimate,” Vladimir Putin's press secretary said about this.
“We don’t see the slightest opportunity for cooperation,” a Kremlin representative responded to a request to comment on the statement of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan to the Russian agency TASS.
On June 25, the Athens News reported that International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and leading Russian general Valery Gerasimov “for crimes committed during Russia’s war with Ukraine.” The two warrants bring the total number of senior Russian officials wanted for war crimes to four, after the ICC previously issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova.
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In 2021, Vladimir Putin appointed her Commissioner for Children’s Rights under the President of the Russian Federation. It is she who is accused of “organizing the abduction of children from Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions.”
Athens News reported earlier that The US threatened the ICC with sanctions for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
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