If President Putin were to be arrested overseas following the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for him, it would amount to a 'declaration of war,' a top Russian official said. 'Our relations with the Western world are already poor,' he added.
If Russian President Vladimir Putin were to be arrested overseas following the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for him, it would amount to a"declaration of war," a top Russian official warned.
German Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann said Berlin would have to implement the ICC decision and arrest the Russian president if he arrived in Germany. In response, Medvedev said,"Does he even realize that it would be a casus belli, a declaration of war?" "Our relations with the Western world are already poor; they are perhaps at their worst ever. Even when Churchill delivered his Iron Curtain speech, our relationship was better. And all of a sudden, they make such a move against our head of state," Medvedev said.
"The human impact of these crimes was also made clear during my most recent visit to Ukraine. While there, I visited one of the care homes from which children were allegedly taken, close to the current front lines of the conflict," ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, who has visited Ukraine four times since the war began, said following the release of the warrant.
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