Russia does not recognize the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for two Russian commanders, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
The Kremlin said Russia was not a party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC - and that the process at the court was closed.
The ICC issued arrest warrants for Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov for suspected war crimes in Ukraine, saying there were reasonable grounds to believe that the two were responsible for "missile strikes carried out by the forces under their command against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023."