The US President Donald Trump has sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) in what has been hailed by a Russian official as “a gift to Moscow.”

Trump’s move will no doubt weaken the ICC and their efforts to arrest the Russian despot Vladimir Putin and bring him to trial.

The ICC issued international arrests warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova on 17 March 2023, who oversaw the forced illegal deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia.
The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “Russia does not recognise the ICC. U.S. sanctions against them are none of our business.”
One high-ranking Kremlin official told The Moscow Times on condition of anonymity, “I’m delighted. This is great news. The ICC had gotten too arrogant, and now Washington has put them in their place.”

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A Russian diplomat told the Moscow Times, Trumps move is “A gift to Moscow.
“This won’t change the situation overnight, but it gives the President, his team and his security services more maneuverability when planning travel. We won’t have a repeat of the BRICS summit fiasco in South Africa.”
However, despite this the ICC has come out said they will continue to hold Russian accountable for their war crimes which has and still is happening in Ukraine.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi during a briefing, “I think that the US decisions are not related to the Ukrainian context, and we hope that they will not affect the court’s ability to achieve justice and justice for the victims of Russian aggression.”
The ICC also issued arrest warrants for Valery Gerasimov and the Sergei Shoigu for war crimes.
The war crimes committed by Shoigu and Gerasimov took place between 10 October 2022 until 9 March 2023 as they are responsible for missile attacks on civilian infrastructure and the energy sector which affected tens of thousands of Ukrainians during the freezing winter months.
Last June the Russian Security Council said the ICC’s decision is “part of the hybrid war of the West against the Russian Federation.”
Last September, Tass reported that the Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev warned the ICC to think twice before they execute the warrant on Putin and declared the arrest warrant is “legally null and void.”
Medvedev wrote on Telegram commenting on the EU’s statement regarding Putin’s visit to Mongolia, “The Mongolians have ignored the ICC and the European politicians.
“If I were a judge or prosecutor of this so-called court, I would be afraid that some fool would carry out their illegal order. In that case, their lives would be worth no more than that piece of paper.”

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