Medvedev said on his Twitter account in English: There is no need for us to explain where you will use this paper? Adding an emoji, a roll of toilet paper, at the end of his tweet, indicating the uselessness of the memo.
For her part, the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova, who also issued an arrest warrant from the court, said, “Sanctions have been imposed on all countries, even Japan, and now an arrest warrant … But we will continue our work,” according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
She added sarcastically, “It is nice that the international community has appreciated our work to help the children of our country, and that we do not leave them in the areas of military operations and take them out of them.”
And the director of the Russian “RT” television, Margarita Simonyan, made a veiled threat to any country that wanted to arrest Putin.
“I would like to see which country will detain Putin under the Hague Resolution. The journey to its capital will take about eight minutes,” she wrote on Twitter, in an apparent reference to the speed of the Russian missiles.
Russian investigation
- On the other hand, the Investigative Committee, which is responsible for the main criminal investigations in Russia, ordered the opening of an investigation into the “illegal issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court against Russian citizens.”
- Russian investigators will have to determine who the ICC judges are behind the decision in light of possible future reprisals.
Earlier, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said via Telegram that “the decisions of the International Criminal Court are of no importance to our country.”
Zakharova added that “Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and has no obligations under it,” explaining that Moscow “does not cooperate” with the court.
It said that “arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court are legally invalid” for Russia.
In turn, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “Russia, like a number of other countries, does not recognize the jurisdiction of this court, and therefore from a legal point of view, the decisions of this court are invalid.”
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