Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russia ‘doesn’t recognize’ the International Criminal Court

Russia “doesn’t recognize” the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday, responding to a question about recent media reports that the court intends to open two war crimes cases related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Peskov added that “for many years,” no members of the international community “deigned to pay attention to the destruction of civilian infrastructure or the murders of civilians that Ukrainian nationalists carried out in the Donbas.”