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The Kremlin described the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Russia’s former defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the current military chief of staff, as “quite absurd.” “We do not recognize the court’s jurisdiction and are not a member of the relevant statute. Accordingly, we also do not recognize the arrest warrants,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. The orders are as silly as the previous arrest warrants against President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s commissioner for children’s …

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