Russian President Vladimir Putin made a shock go to to occupied Mariupol, the Kremlin stated early Sunday. His journey to the Ukrainian metropolis, which was devastated final 12 months in a lethal Russian siege and is about 60 miles from the battlefront, is a present of defiance following the arrest warrant that the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) issued for him over alleged warfare crimes in Ukraine. It was Putin’s second foray this weekend into occupied Ukraine, following a go to to the Crimean peninsula.
German authorities will arrest Putin if he units foot of their nation, in accordance with the ICC warrant, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann advised the Bild newspaper. Officers in Moscow described the warrant as illegal and stated they had been investigating the German minister’s assertion, in accordance with Russia’s state-run Tass information company. It’s extremely unlikely that Putin would journey to any of the 123 nations, together with Germany, that acknowledge the ICC’s jurisdiction.
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Siobhán O’Grady and Kamila Hrabchuk in Kyiv contributed to this report.