'Citizens of the judge, look carefully into the sky,' former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned.
Attempts to try Putin in the ICC would have"monstrous" consequences for international law, Medvedev, deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said in a statement on his Telegram channel.
The ICC, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, concluded on Friday that the Russian leader hadin his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that started almost 13 months ago, citing the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. It marked the time that an arrest warrant has been issued against the leader of one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
Then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, are pictured in Moscow on December 1, 2011. Medvedev issued an ominous warning on Monday, suggesting that Russia could strike the International Criminal Court with a hypersonic missile in response to its decision to issue an arrest warrant for Putin."The ICC judges got excited in vain.
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