A few days after issuing the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev threatened the International Criminal Court in The Hague with a hypersonic missile strike.

The former Russian president and prime minister published his post on Telegram.

"The judges of the ISS dispersed in vain. Look, they say, we are brave, we did not hesitate to raise a hand against the largest nuclear power. Unfortunately, gentlemen, everyone walks under God and missiles. It is quite possible to imagine the point application of the hypersonic Onyx from the North Sea from a Russian ship to the Hague court building. It cannot be shot down, unfortunately. And the court is only a poor international organization, not the population of a NATO country. That is why they will not start a war. They will be afraid. And no one will regret it. So citizens of the judge, look carefully at the sky," he threatens Medvedev

The Russian politician declared the "inefficiency" of the system of international public law.

In his opinion, all the acts of the General Assembly, the UN Security Council and other institutions are "unjust", so countries do not want to implement them.

According to Medvedev, you can judge the country and its leaders only in two cases: when the country itself "weakened wildly, almost lost its sovereignty and decided to recognize the judgment against itself" and when the country lost the war and capitulated.

We will remind:

On March 17,

the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

because of the war in Ukraine.

They also want to arrest the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova, who is believed to be involved in the removal of Ukrainian children. 

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin explained that the dictator should be arrested and brought to court when he is outside Russia.

If

Putin

does not arrive in The Hague, Interpol will be looking for him.

This was stated by ex-judge of the ICC Volodymyr Vasylenko.

The warrant obliges the head of the aggressor state to appear to testify.

The President 

of the United States of America, Joe Biden, said that the decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber

 II of the International Criminal Court to issue a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin is justified. 

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that the decision of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin is 

"just the beginning of the process."  

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

is an international treaty approved when the ICC was established in Rome in 1998.

It entered into force on July 1, 2002, as of 2016, the document was signed by 139 countries, but ratified by 125, including Russia.

The statute obliges Interpol member states to assist in the apprehension of persons accused of committing international crimes.

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