The Russian Federation reacted to the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling it an "

“We regard any attacks on the President of the Russian Federation as aggression against our country,” said Vyacheslav Volodin, head of the State Duma..

At the same time, he added that the “stupidity voiced from The Hague” and “papers from the alien Hague court” do not apply to Russia..

The position of the country’s Foreign Ministry is the same: its representative, Maria Zakharova, said that the warrant for Putin’s arrest has no meaning and is “legally void,” since Russia is not a party to the Rome Charter..

The main propagandist of Russian television, Margarita Simonyan, in turn, resorted to threats.

“I would like to see a country that, by decision of The Hague, will arrest Putin. eight minutes later. Or how long it will take to fly to her capital, ”she commented.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed the central office of the department to conduct an audit in connection with the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue warrants for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova and to identify the judges who made this decision.

Former Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin called today's decision of the International Criminal Court on the arrest warrant for Putin "

According to Andriy Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, The Hague's warrant for the arrest of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin means that outside the Russian Federation he should be arrested and brought to trial..