Arresting the Russian president abroad on behalf of the International Criminal Court (ICC) would be casus belli, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, answering questions from journalists and social media users this morning, according to TASS reports. “Let’s imagine – this is of course a situation that will never happen, yes – but let’s imagine it actually happens. For example, an incumbent president of a nuclear power comes to Germany and is arrested. What would that be? A statement by war against the Russian Federation! In that case, all our funds would fly to the Bundestag, the Chancellery and so on.” On the words of German Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann, according to which Berlin must execute the judgment of the International Criminal Court and arrest the Russian head of state if he enters German territory, Medvedev noted : “He is aware that would that be a casus belli, a declaration of war? Or didn’t he do his homework?” he concluded.
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Hungary would not arrest Vladimir Putin if he entered its territory. This was stated by Gergely Gulyás, head of the cabinet of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, quoted by the local media.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome this morning and launch a Russian military satellite Kosmos-2567. This was announced by the agency Interfax. “The spacecraft entered target orbit on schedule and was brought under control by the Space Force’s ground facilities,” the Moscow ministry said.
This morning The Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has returned to attack the West. “Western countries led by the United States have decided to bring humanity to the brink of nuclear Armageddon,” he said in response to comments from senior US officials that depleted uranium munitions had been in use for decades and did not pose a high risk . “It’s really difficult to comment on such nonsense. The US authorities have hit a new low with their irresponsible statements,” Antonov said.
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Hungary would not arrest Vladimir Putin if he entered its territory. This was stated by Gergely Gulyás, head of the cabinet of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, quoted by the local media.
Russian troops spotted and used APC-82 weapons to kill a crew of Ukrainian drone operators sheltering in a family home near Donetsk, Ivan Bigma, spokesman for Battlegroup South, told TASS. In the course of joint offensive operations in the settlement of Maryinka near Donetsk, a place was discovered where the Ukrainian military shot down unmanned aerial vehicles and operators were destroyed with standard APC armament,” he added.
Ukraine, apartment building in Zaporizhzhia bombed: one dead and over 30 injured
The Russian offensive at Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine is “slowing down” as the pace of operations in nearby Avdiivka picks up, according to the Institute for the Study of War in its daily update on the conflict. The Guardian reports on it. Russian operations around Bakhmut “appear to be slowing amid Western reports that Russian forces may be attempting to launch offensives in other directions,” writes the US research center. Russian forces, he continues, are accelerating offensive operations around Avdiivka – which is some 55 kilometers southwest of Bakhmut – with the aim of encircling the city. And experts at the study center do not rule out that the Russians are doing this at the expense of their operations in Bakhmut and Vugledar (about 70 kilometers southwest of Avdiivka), where the offensive appears to have stalled. Even the British Ministry of Defense spoke in its intelligence report yesterday of a “realistic possibility” that the Russian attack on Bakhmut will lose the limited momentum it has gained, partly because some units have been moved to other sectors.