The Worldwide Legal Courtroom mentioned on Tuesday that it had issued arrest warrants for 2 high-profile Russian safety figures accused of warfare crimes in Ukraine — Sergei Ok. Shoigu, a former protection minister, and Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, the nation’s highest-ranking army officer.
In a press release, the courtroom mentioned the 2 males have been “allegedly accountable” for guiding assaults on civilian objects, inflicting extreme incidental hurt to civilians or harm to civilian objects, and the crime towards humanity of inhumane acts. The warrants have been issued on Monday.
“There are cheap grounds to consider that the 2 suspects bear accountability for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces towards the Ukrainian electrical infrastructure” between October 2022 and March 2023, the assertion mentioned. “Throughout this time frame, a lot of strikes towards quite a few electrical energy vegetation and substations have been carried out by the Russian armed forces in a number of areas in Ukraine.”
Final 12 months, the courtroom issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir V. Putin and one other Russian official, saying they bore particular person prison accountability for the kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian kids within the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In March, it issued arrest warrants for 2 senior Russian commanders, accusing them of warfare crimes and crimes towards humanity.
Russia has mentioned that it doesn’t acknowledge the arrest warrants, or the Worldwide Legal Courtroom’s jurisdiction, and that it denies warfare crimes.
