Sunday, May 5, 2024 - Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, May 5, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's “desperation.”
According to TASS, the Russian Interior Ministry database
showed Zelenskiy was on a wanted list but gave no further details.
Ukraine's foreign ministry in a statement said Russian
President Vladimir Putin is also subject to arrest under an International
Criminal Court warrant.
"We would like to remind
you that, unlike the worthless Russian announcements, an International Criminal
Court warrant for the arrest of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on suspicion of
war crimes is quite real and subject to implementation in 123 countries,"
the foreign ministry said in a statement.
It said the Russian announcement was "evidence of the
desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda, which can think of no
other way to attract attention".
Russia has issued arrest warrants for a number of Ukrainian
and other European politicians since the start of the conflict with Ukraine in
February 2022.
Russian police in February put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja
Kallas, Lithuania's culture minister and members of the previous Latvian
parliament on a wanted list for destroying Soviet-era monuments.
Russia also issued an arrest warrant for the International
Criminal Court prosecutor who last year prepared Putin's war crimes warrant.
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