After a warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Russian diplomat Dmitry Medvedev said that any attempt to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin would amount to a ‘declaration of war’.
The remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, came at a time when the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Expressing his anger on the German Minister of Justice’s remarks about Putin’s arrest upon his arrival in Germany, Medvedev said, “I want to say that Marko Bushman is a lawyer, he must understand the meaning of his words.” It clearly means a declaration of war with us.
Dmitry Medvedev called the ICC’s issuance of the warrant an ‘abolition of international law’.