Ukraine welcomed the move saying the men will be 'held responsible for evil'The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russia's chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and former defence minister Sergei Shoigu - who was recently sacked from the position by Vladimir Putin.
The court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin in March last year, a ruling that Moscow called 'void'. Russia levelled its own warrant against the ICC's president in response. The ICC, based in The Hague, does not have its own police force for enforcing the arrest warrants. It relies on the justice system of its 124 members to carry them out.
It comes after Shoigu was ousted in the most significant reshuffle of Russia's military command since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.