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Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's "desperation".

TASS reported that the Russian Interior Ministry database showed Zelenskiy was on a wanted list but gave no further details. Ukraine's foreign ministry noted Russian President Vladimir Putin was himself subject to arrest under an International Criminal Court warrant.

"We would like to remind you that unlike the worthless Russian announcements, an International Criminal Court warrant for the arrest of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on suspicion of war crimes is quite real, and subject to implementation in 123 countries," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

It said the Russian announcement was "evidence of the desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda, which can think of no other way to attract attention".

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TBH I'm surprised that they waited until 800 days into their 3-day invasion to do this. I'd have thought they would fabricate something before they invaded.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's because Russia said they would not assassinate a head of state. Zelensky's presidential term expires in May.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

This would hold more water if they hadn't tried to assassinate him on countless occasions already (especially during the first few days of the war), but that tortured logic is about what I'd expect from them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Wait, now they have morals?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Ah yes, the crime of trying to keep your nation free and alive through appropriate defensive measures. How truly dastardly (/s)

Honestly this might be the single most pathetic threat that I've seen in a long time. Is it even a threat? Publicity stunt? Honestly I don't know or care, because we all know this statement means about as much as a Trump tweet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like pretext for an assassination attempt to me. I hope he stays safe.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they've already tried to kill the guy at least a few times by now. I know I would if I was Putin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't a war a large scale assassination attempt?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

... No? Assassination has the goal to kill, a war has the goal of conquering or driving back someone else, deaths happen but they usually aren't the main goal. Large scale assassination would be genocide.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Desperate & pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

A cunning strategy! He'll never expect it!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Check out this one weird trick for winning a war! NATO hates it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

remember when putin said russia would be victorious and the war would be over in three weeks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure that was three days

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope Zelenskiy stays away from windows and airplanes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would he? He's not in Russia (no matter how much Putin plays pretend on that).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not being in Russia didn’t help Alexander Litvinenko

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but Ukraine is currently at war with Russia and on hyper-alert for Russians trying to assassinate their president. They've stopped numerous assassination plots against him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So your previous comment was meaningless and your sentiment around not needing to be careful is that they have been extremely careful

Or you could just have a laugh