Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Warns That Any Attempt to Arrest Putin Would be Considered a Declaration of War by Russia, Resulting in Missile Retaliation

Dmitry Medvedev declared that any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for him would be considered a declaration of war against Russia. Last week, the ICC accused Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine, and stated that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Putin was individually responsible. Russian officials have denied any war crimes in Ukraine and have accused the West of ignoring Ukrainian war crimes. Medvedev also said that the ICC is a “legal nonentity” that has never done anything significant.

He further stated that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February of this year has caused the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Medvedev believes that relations between Russia and the US are currently at the worst point ever, and that every day’s delivery of foreign weapons to Ukraine brings closer the nuclear apocalypse. He also said that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the West had considered itself the rulers of Russia, but Putin had put an end to that. Medvedev asserted that Ukraine is part of Russia, and that he hopes by the time the situation stabilises, a significant portion of Western leaders will have retired or passed away.