Russia ‘will have to make a stop in The Hague on their way to hell’ after ICC arrest warrant

Ukraine’s ambassador on the United Nations says that “there isn’t any purgatory for battle criminals, they go straight to hell.”

Talking after the Worldwide Felony Courtroom issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Sergiy Kyslytsya mentioned “these of them who stay alive after the navy defeat of Russia should make a cease in The Hague on their solution to hell.”

In his nightly tackle to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to as it an “historic choice, from which historic accountability will start.”

The Kremlin, nonetheless, has dismissed the ICC’s arrest warrant, which may see theoretically see Putin arrested if he goes to a rustic which is an ICC signatory. 

Putin’s spokesperson referred to as the arrest warrant “outrageous and unacceptable”, and labeled the ICC’s selections as “legally void.”

In Washington, US President Joe Biden referred to as the ICC’s choice “justified,” telling reporters that Putin “clearly dedicated battle crimes.” Whereas the US doesn’t recognise the courtroom both, Biden mentioned it “makes a really sturdy level” to name out the Russian chief’s actions in ordering the invasion.

What did the Worldwide Felony Courtroom say?

The Worldwide Felony Courtroom says it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Putin for battle crimes due to his alleged involvement in abductions of kids from Ukraine.

The courtroom mentioned in an announcement Friday that Putin “is allegedly chargeable for the battle crime of illegal deportation of inhabitants (kids) and that of illegal switch of inhabitants (kids) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

On the identical time, the courtroom additionally issued a warrant for the arrest for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Kids’s Rights within the Workplace of the President of the Russian Federation on comparable allegations.

The ICC mentioned that its pre-trial chamber discovered there have been “cheap grounds to consider that every suspect bears accountability for the battle crime of illegal deportation of inhabitants and that of illegal switch of inhabitants from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian kids.”