The Prosecutor General's Office called the ICC decisions on Russians illegal

MOSCOW, October 8 - RIA Novosti. The decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Russians were made in violation of the fundamental principles and norms of international law and in the absence of any evidence, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said.

In November 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an order “On the Russian Federation’s intention not to become a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,” and a notification of this intention was sent to the UN Secretary General. Despite this, in The Hague, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan illegally prosecuted Russian citizens, and the court's presidium instructed the chamber's judges to issue patently illegal warrants for their arrest.

“These decisions were made in violation of the fundamental principles and norms of international law and in the absence of any evidence of the commission of alleged crimes by these persons,” the press service of the Russian Civil Prosecutor’s Office said.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia does not recognize the ICC and its jurisdiction. He noted that for many years, neither international judicial bodies, even those that we do not recognize, nor other members of the international community bothered to pay attention to the destruction of civilian infrastructure, to the killings of civilians that Ukrainian nationalists carried out in the Donbass.