The Kremlin announced on Tuesday that Russia does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC), the TASS news agency reported, citing AFP and Agerpres.

“We do not recognize this court, we do not recognize its jurisdiction,” Peskov said on Tuesday.

His comments came after The New York Times reported Monday that the ICC’s chief prosecutor is expected to ask a judge to approve arrest warrants for several Russian nationals suspected of abducting children from Ukraine and taking them to Russia. and also that they attacked civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

Speaking about the war, Peskov repeated the position he expressed a day ago, according to which Russia’s goals in Ukraine can be achieved only by “military means.”

“We must achieve our goals. Now this is possible only by military means, as a result of the current position of the Kyiv regime,” said the representative of the Kremlin.

A judge or jury will decide whether the legal standards for issuing arrest warrants have been met or whether investigators need more evidence.

The first case in The Hague after the start of the war in Ukraine

It is not clear who the court planned to indict in each case. In June, Ukraine’s former prosecutor general told Reuters he hoped the ICC would recognize child abduction as genocide.

According to some diplomats and experts, it is possible that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be indicted because the ICC does not recognize immunity for any head of state in cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.

However, the probability of a trial remains extremely low, according to some experts, who emphasize that the ICC cannot judge in absentia.

Propagandists in Moscow have repeatedly talked about the possibility of trials in The Hague in recent months to try Russian officials, saying, among other things, that this is one of the reasons why Russia cannot lose the war in Ukraine.

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