Zakharova: Kyiv put itself in the dock in the case against Russia in The Hague. She recalled that so far the decision of the Hague Court is limited to the procedural issue of whether it has jurisdiction.

“We can only applaud the Kyiv “craftsmen’ and their Western patrons: they “shot themselves in the foot,” the diplomat concluded. In May, the Investigative Committee of Russia brought charges in absentia against the prosecutor and the judge of the International Criminal Court.