Posted on 06/25/2024 7:51:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The charges relate to missile attacks on civilian infrastructure, in particular on the energy sector.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russia's former Minister of Defence and its current army chief, in a body blow for Putin.
Sergey Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov have been charged with war crimes committed in Ukraine between the period October 10, 2022 until at least March 9, 2023.
The charges relate to missile attacks on civilian infrastructure, in particular on the energy sector.
While acknowledging they may have been deemed as genuine army targets at the time, the collateral damage to civilians would have been "clearly excessive to the anticipated military advantage", the court said.
The ICC said: "The two warrants of arrest were issued following applications filed by the Prosecution.
"Pre-Trial Chamber II 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 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023.
"During this time-frame, a large number of strikes against numerous electric power plants and sub-stations were carried out by the Russian armed forces in multiple locations in Ukraine.
"Pre-Trial Chamber II found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the alleged strikes were directed against civilian objects, and for those installations that may have qualified as military objectives at the relevant time, the expected incidental civilian harm and damage would have been clearly excessive to the anticipated military advantage."
Shoigu was recently dismissed from his post by Putin and replaced with Andrei Belousov.
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The International Criminal Court? LOL.
They should March over to Moscow with their Wigs on and arrest them.
Why isn’t there an arrest warrant for that idjit Zelensky?
Electricity is used to run machine tools.
Ukraine is fighting for its very existence.
It is reasonable to assume that Ukrainian electricity and the machine tools powered by electricity are being used for military production purposes to the maximum practical extent.
Until the 1930s, millions of Americans lacked electricity.
I guess Zelensky and his crew will never be held accountable for the war crime of the shelling of civilians in Donetsk from 2014 to 2024.
Electricity is used to power civilian homes and hospitals.
You love you some globalism, s
Don’t you.
Tell Putin to stop bombing civilian infrastructure.
If I lose electricity after a hurricane, I will just use the solar cell yard lights to light the rooms.
One can cook using wood.
Where is the arrest warrant for Tony Fauci? Or Michael Mann? Or Eric Holder? /spit
More CIA propaganda!
Add Xi to your list.
“hospitals”
normally have backup generators.
The headline sounds as if it was written by Communists.
Why don’t you walk into Russia and get Putin and his government agents yourself marcimaxipad.
Go away. The ICC, really?
Is killing children playing on the beach a war crime?
“Electricity is used to power civilian homes”
and will be in the USA, if the sun shines enough or the wind blows enough.
“Four ATACMS were shot down, it said, but the impact from a Russian air-defense interceptor caused one to deviate from its trajectory and its warhead to explode midair over the city.”
I’m sure Ukrainian officials in Kiev could tell you many similar stories.
The real problem is that the Biden administration wants war instead of peace in the region.
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