The Vice President of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, on Monday referred in a threatening tone to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against the Russian head of state.
The arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin was issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday.
In a confusing statement released today via Telegram’s digital messaging system, Medvedev, Russia’s president between 2008 and 2012, says “we are all at the mercy of God and missiles”.
“The court [TPI] it’s just a miserable organization, it’s not the people of NATO countries. So it won’t start a war. Be afraid (…). So, judges, take a good look at the sky…” Medvedev threatened in the translation of the Spanish agency EFE.
In a contradictory way, the former Russian head of state adds in the same message that “it will be completely unthinkable to use an Onyx hypersonic missile (a naval missile developed by Russia since 2002) launched from a Russian ship in the North Sea against the headquarters of the ICC in The Hague”, in the Netherlands.
In the same text, Medvedev also says that the consequences of an arrest warrant against a nuclear-powered head of state “will be monstrous” for international law.
“Now no one will resort to international bodies. All agreements will work separately. All stupid decisions of the United Nations and other structures will fall to pieces. The dark sunset of the entire system of international relations begins,” he says in the same message.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, who was allegedly responsible for “the war crime of deporting the population (children) and transferring the population from the occupied territories of Ukraine” by Russia.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.
“We consider any ICC decision that we do not recognize as legally null and void,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
Source: DN
