Russian propagandists began to raise the question that they could be tried by the International Criminal Court in The Hague if Russia loses the war against Ukraine.

“[Ucrainenii] they are preparing to take our Crimea. We are doing the only thing we can do in this situation. We bomb. We bomb every day. We bomb the infrastructure. God knows I didn’t want it,” says Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russia Today TV channel.

“No one wanted this, not you, not me. I know the management didn’t want that either. Again, we are decent, polite and sometimes weak. We are so soft, we are so decent, we are gullible, we are weak, but do we have to be like that?” she asks the other guests, before answering to herself:

“We now see that the infrastructure [Ucrainei] the infrastructure that helps Ukraine to fight and kill our people on the territories that now belong to us is being destroyed every day. I am in awe of our people, and unfortunately I know many of them, including those in very high circles, who are afraid of it and afraid to say things because of what people there (of any West) might think.”

“Maybe it’s time to leave those high circles?” Volodymyr Solovyov intervenes.

The head of Russia Today talks about the trial of Russians in The Hague

“We don’t care what they think there. People who are afraid [Curtea Penală Internațională de la] The Hague, listen: you have to be afraid of losing, being humiliated, afraid of betrayal of your people,” Margarita Simonyan answers.

“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.

“The scale of the disaster will not change, regardless of whether another district of Kyiv will be left without electricity, if this happens to our country. It’s unimaginable,” she continued, before Volodymyr Solovyov interjected, “but we can’t lose.”

“Don’t go into the forest if you’re afraid of The Hague,” she concludes, apparently referring to the Russian proverb: “don’t go into the forest if you’re afraid of wolves.”

In mid-May, the International Criminal Court announced that it had sent to Ukraine the largest group of investigators ever sent to any country.

The court opened an investigation into alleged war crimes in early March after being referred to it by 39 states.

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