'It would be a declaration of war on the Russian Federation,' said Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and prime minister.
The court, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, concluded on March 16 that Putin hadin his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, citing the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.
Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia's security council and was also prime minister for eight years, said that if the German authorities attempted to arrest the Russian president on the ICC's warrant, it would be a declaration of war.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images , along with the U.S., so Medvedev's warning suggests that any arrest would put the military alliance at war with Russia, sparking World War III.
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