International Criminal Court seeks arrest of Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov

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International ********* Court seeks arrest of Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov

The International ********* Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russia’s former defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the chief of general staff, Valery Gerasimov.

The ICC judges said the two men were suspected of committing war ******* and ******* against humanity during the war in Ukraine.

The court said there were grounds to believe that Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov bore individual ********* responsibility for attacks on civilian targets between October 2022 and March 2023.

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes … against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure,” the ICC said in its indictment.

The court said the civilian damage from the alleged strikes would have been “clearly excessive” to any military advantage gained by Russia.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the ICC’s decision was “a clear indication that justice for Russian ******* against Ukrainians is inevitable.”

“Every ********* involved in the planning and ********** of these strikes must know that justice will be served. And we do hope to see them behind bars.”

Russia’s Security Council said the ICC’s arrest warrant against Mr Shoigu was “insignificant” and part of a hybrid war against Moscow.

Mr Shoigu, a long-standing ally of Russian President Vladimir ******, was

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– a post he had held since 2012. He is now the secretary of the Security Council.

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The court alleged he was responsible for war *******, focusing its claims on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. A warrant was also issued for the arrest of Mr ******’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.

Not much else came of the move since the ICC has no powers to arrest suspects, and can only exercise jurisdiction within its member countries – and Russia is not one of them.

However, the ruling has perhaps curtailed travel for Mr ******. Since it was issued, the Russian president has avoided visiting countries that are signatories to the ICC.

Ukraine is not a member of the ICC either, but it has accepted the court’s jurisdiction over alleged ******* committed on its territory since November 2013.

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