Medvedev of Russia goes on a diatribe against the International Criminal Court, threatening The Hague with a missile attack.
The former Russian president ordered the International Criminal Court to ‘keep a watchful eye on the sky.’
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s Deputy Security Council Chairman, stated on Monday that the Kremlin may launch a hypersonic missile at the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the organization’s arrest order for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I’m afraid, gentlemen,” Medvedev, a staunch Putin supporter who served as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, wrote in a Telegram chat, according to Russian official media source Tass.
“It’s not difficult to imagine a hypersonic Oniks fired from a Russian warship in the North Sea striking the Hague Court Building.” I’m afraid it can’t be shot down.”
Medvedev also advised the justices to “pay close attention to the skies,” describing the court as a “pathetic international organization.”
On Friday, the ICC issued an arrest request for Putin, accusing him of being “responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of the population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” Another warrant was issued for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Russian Federation’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the President’s Office.
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According to Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets, as many as 16,226 children have been removed during the 13-month conflict.
Over the weekend, President Biden termed the warrant for Putin’s arrest “justified,” claiming that he had “clearly committed war crimes.”
Other Russian officials dismissed the ICC warrant, which Russia does not recognize. The United States and China did not join the 1998 Rome Statute, which created the court’s powers.
Medvedev has a history of making obscene forecasts, such as that civil war would erupt in the United States in 2023 and that Russia’s loss in a conventional conflict will “provoke the beginning of a nuclear war.”
