The most famous Russian TV presenter and the Kremlin’s favorite propagandist, Volodymyr Solovyov, in a new fit of anger, threatened that the Russian army would return to Paris and Berlin, and he would bring the “freaks” of Europe to trial in The Hague.

“Do you want to judge in The Hague? Then we will judge you in The Hague! We will come to The Hague like we came to Nuremberg (no post WWII trials) to try you bastards!” – exclaims Solovyov.

“We will come to The Hague, we will return to Paris as in the 19th century and to Berlin as in the 20th century,” he continues his threats, referring to France’s defeat in the Napoleonic Wars and Nazi Germany in 1945.

“A Russian soldier should once again remind European bastards in the 21st century that they should think of us with respect! We will make you! Will it be difficult? very. Will there be attacks on our cities? Yes,’ he continued in a serious tone.

“Will the European Nazis get all their American masters can give them? Of course. Will additional sanctions be introduced against us? Yes,” says Solovyov in his monologue.

Is Solovyov angry at the USA or the EU?

Given the mention of the US sending weapons to Europe, it is unclear whether Solovyov’s tantrum was prompted by the announcement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s visit to Washington, when Joe Biden is expected to formally announce that the US will send Patriot systems to Ukraine, or comments made in late November by Ursula von der Leyen regarding the creation of an international court under the auspices of the United Nations to consider war crimes committed by Russia.

Literally a day after the statements of the president of the European Commission on this matter, the Kremlin condemned the EU plan, saying that such a court would have no legitimacy and would be condemned by Moscow.

However, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said on December 13 that the Netherlands would be ready to host a new UN-backed tribunal to deal with the invasion launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24.

Hoekstra also said that the Netherlands would seek international support and funding for the court alongside the EU, and that the new court should not interfere with the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is also based in the Netherlands.

Russian propagandists are increasingly talking about the court in The Hague

While it is not clear what made Solovyov angry again, it is interesting that Russian propagandists seem to be increasingly mentioning a possible trial in The Hague for Russian war crimes.

Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russia Today channel, told about this at the end of November in Solovyov’s show on the Russia-1 TV channel.

“People who are afraid [Curtea Penală Internațională de la] The Hague, listen: you have to be afraid of losing, being humiliated and betraying your people,” she said.

“Let me tell you that if we manage to lose, The Hague, real or hypothetical, will come for the cleaner who sweeps the cubic stones behind the Kremlin,” she claims.

“Don’t go into the woods if you’re afraid of The Hague,” she concludes a longer monologue, apparently referring to the Russian saying, “don’t go into the woods if you’re afraid of wolves.”

Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, also raised the possibility of a Hague trial in an interview earlier this week.

Responding to increasingly vocal accusations in certain Russian circles that his many criticisms of the military command in Moscow are aimed at publicity or, as he called them in an interview, “purely mercantile interests,” Girkin said:

“Even here I have a very strong consideration: if we lose the war, I will receive a life sentence in The Hague, and then be sent to Kyiv, where I will, without a doubt, be hanged.”

Ukraine abolished the death penalty in 2000. But in November, a Dutch court sentenced Girkin to life in prison for his role in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

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