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Former defense minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, were named in the warrants for multiple attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, in actions that the court alleged amounted to Russian state policy.
The court — to which Russia is not a signatory — last year issued indictments against President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his commissioner for children’s rights, over the removal of Ukrainian children to Russia, a war crime.
Shoigu was defense minister until Putin removed him last month and appointed Andrei Belousov in his place. Shoigu, a Putin loyalist, was instead appointed as head of Russia’s Security Council.
According to the indictment, Shoigu and Gerasimov were responsible for the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and “causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects … and the crime against humanity of inhumane acts.”
The ICC indictment also cites alleged crimes from at least Oct. 10, 2022, until at least March 9, 2023, when Russia carried out a large number of strikes against Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure.
In May, the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced he had applied to the court for arrest warrants to be issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as three Hamas leaders, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza during and after the attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
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The court — to which Russia is not a signatory — last year issued indictments against President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his commissioner for children’s rights, over the removal of Ukrainian children to Russia, a war crime.
Shoigu was defense minister until Putin removed him last month and appointed Andrei Belousov in his place. Shoigu, a Putin loyalist, was instead appointed as head of Russia’s Security Council.
According to the indictment, Shoigu and Gerasimov were responsible for the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and “causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects … and the crime against humanity of inhumane acts.”
The ICC indictment also cites alleged crimes from at least Oct. 10, 2022, until at least March 9, 2023, when Russia carried out a large number of strikes against Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure.
In May, the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced he had applied to the court for arrest warrants to be issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as three Hamas leaders, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza during and after the attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
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