ICC Issues War Crimes Arrest Warrants for Russian General, Former Defense Minister

Published on June 25, 2024

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday issued war crimes-related arrest warrants for a top Russian general, Valery Gerasimov, and former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The court, an intergovernmental organization run from The Hauge in the Netherlands, said in a news release that the two were allegedly involved in multiple war crimes, including causing excessive incidental harm to civilians and directing attacks on civilian objects. They were also charged with crimes against humanity. The court said in a statement that it “considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least” October 2022 until November 2023....

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