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 a purgatory for battle criminals, they go straight to hell."

Talking after the Worldwide Felony Court docket issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Sergiy Kyslytsya stated "these of them who stay alive after the army defeat of Russia must make a cease in The Hague on their technique to hell.”

In his nightly handle to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as it an “historic resolution, from which historic duty will start."

The Kremlin, nevertheless, 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 known as the arrest warrant "outrageous and unacceptable", and labeled the ICC's choices as "legally void."

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

What did the Worldwide Felony Court docket say?

The Worldwide Felony Court docket 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 stated in a press release Friday that Putin “is allegedly accountable for the battle crime of illegal deportation of inhabitants (youngsters) and that of illegal switch of inhabitants (youngsters) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

On the similar 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 related allegations.

The ICC stated that its pre-trial chamber discovered there have been “affordable grounds to consider that every suspect bears duty 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 youngsters.”