ICC issues arrest warrants for Russian officials over alleged Ukraine war crimes
by Andrew Rothin London and Pjotr Sauer in Kyiv from World news | The Guardian on (#6NRS7)
Army chief and ex-minister of defence accused over missile attacks on civilian targets
The international criminal court (ICC) at The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Russia's ex-minister of defence and current army chief of staff for alleged war crimes in Ukraine after a missile campaign targeting Ukrainian power plants and other civilian infrastructure during the full-scale invasion.
Ex-minister of defence Sergei Shoigu and the current chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, Valery Gerasimov, are accused of the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and of causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects. They were also accused of crimes against humanity.
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