Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, suggested Monday the Kremlin could fire a hypersonic missile at the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the organization issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I fear, gentlemen, everyone is responsible to God and the missiles,” wrote Medvedev, a staunch Putin loyalist who was also Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, in a message on Telegram, according to Russian state media outlet Tass.
“One can well imagine a hypersonic onik fired from a Russian warship in the North Sea hitting the courthouse in The Hague. I’m afraid it can’t be shot down.”
Medvedev also warned the judges not to “watch the sky closely” and called the court “a pathetic international organization”.
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev walk along Moscow’s Kremlin wall in June 2015. (Associated Press)
The ICC on Friday issued the arrest warrant for Putin, alleging he was “responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and unlawful transfer of population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” Another arrest warrant was also directed against Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation.
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According to Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets, as many as 16,226 children were deported during the 13-month war.
President Biden called the arrest warrant for Putin “justified” over the weekend and said he “clearly committed war crimes.”
The exterior of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 29, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Alex Gottschalk/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)
Other Russian officials brushed aside the ICC arrest warrant, which Russia does not recognize. The US and China were also not signatories to the 1998 Rome Statute, which established the court’s authority.
Medvedev has made mundane predictions in the past, including that civil war will erupt in the US in 2023 and that Russia’s defeat in a conventional war could “provoke the start of nuclear war.”
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Earlier this month he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the “main Nazi”, despite Zelenskyy being Jewish. On Friday, Medvedev Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS.C., called a “ba—–” after a Russian fighter jet collided with a US Reaper drone over the Black Sea.
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