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Pjotr Sauer

Russia says it does not recognise Hague court amid reports of arrest warrants

The ICC prosecutor Karim Khan
The prosecutor Karim Khan opened an investigation into possible war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Ukraine just over a year ago. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

Moscow has said it does not recognise the jurisdiction of the international criminal court in The Hague, after reports that the court is expected to seek its first arrest warrants against Russian individuals over the war in Ukraine.

“We do not recognise this court; we do not recognise its jurisdiction,” Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday morning.

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