Dmitry Medvedev, Putin’s supporter, stated Thursday that arresting him after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant would be a declaration of war against Russia.
The ICC issued a Friday arrest warrant for Putin for unlawfully deporting hundreds of Ukrainian children. Court said Putin’s criminal liability is plausible.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian media that the ICC—which Russia, China, and the US do not recognize—as a “legal nonentity” that had never done anything substantial.
Medvedev, deputy head of Putin’s influential security council, said detaining Putin would be a declaration of war.
“Let’s pretend that the present leader of the nuclear state traveled to a region, say Germany, and was imprisoned,” Medvedev stated.
“That? It would declare war on Russia “claimed a Telegram video. “All our assets—missiles, etc.—would fly to the Bundestag, to the Chancellor’s office.”
The Kremlin calls the ICC arrest warrant extremely biased but worthless for Russia. Russian leaders claim the West has disregarded Ukrainian war crimes.
Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine sparked the worst European conflict since World War Two and the greatest Moscow-West crisis since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Medvedev believed relations with the West were at their worst.
Medvedev was a pro-Western reformist from 2008 to 2012. Following the conflict, he insulted Western leaders and issued nuclear warnings.
He reported increased nuclear threats.
Medvedev claimed that Ukraine receives alien weaponry daily, bringing nuclear Armageddon closer.
He stated Putin ended the West’s rule over Russia after the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union.
Medvedev claimed the West resented Russia and China’s independence.
Putin claimed the West now sought to break Russia into lesser entities and seize its massive natural riches.
Putin views the Ukrainian crisis as an existential fight to safeguard Russia against an arrogant and aggressive West that seeks to divide Russia.
The West claims it is defending Ukraine from an imperial territorial grab and not destroying Russia. Nevertheless, Ukraine vows to expel all Russian troops.
Medvedev stated that most modern-day Ukraine was part of the Russian empire. However, Russia recognized Ukraine’s post-1991 sovereignty and boundaries in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
Medvedev said relations with the West would improve, but it would take time.
“I believe that sooner or later the situation will settle and contacts will continue, but I truly hope that a substantial part of those individuals (Western leaders) will have retired and some will be dead,” he stated.
