Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called the bluff of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the arrest warrant issued against President Vladimir Putin.
Responding to the ICC’s directive, Dmitry Medvedev noted that the Court would not be able to lift a finger against the Russian President due to the repercussions they believe might ensue.
According to him, the ICC’s assertion is not far from the truth as “It is quite possible to imagine a hypersonic missile being fired from the North Sea from a Russian ship at The Hague courthouse.”
“That’s why they won’t start a war either. They’ll be afraid to,” he added in a lengthy Telegram post.
He further noted that the court is “only a miserable international organization, not the population of a NATO country.”
Medvedev also advised the court’s judges to “look carefully into the sky.”
He again stated that the arrest warrant for Putin heralds the collapse of international law, calling it “a grim sunset of the whole system of international relations.
Last Friday, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin relating to the “unlawful deportation” of children from occupied areas of Ukraine.
This came a day after the UN denounced the forced deportations as war crimes.
US President Joe Biden says the arrest warrant for Putin is justified.
According to the warrant, Putin might be detained in any of the more than 100 nations that acknowledge the ICC’s jurisdiction.
Putin joins former presidents of Sudan and Libya, Omar al-Bashir and Muammar Gaddafi, as the third sitting president to be named in an ICC warrant.
It has been a week since the arrest warrant was issued and President Putin, who recently hosted China President Xi Jinping, remains a free man.
Later this year, Putin is scheduled to attend a five-nation economic meeting in South Africa. The South African administration has stated that it will seek clarifications before Putin’s arrival.
Source: The Independent Ghana