Pair accused of war crimes relating to civilian attacks in Ukraine and crimes against humanity
The international criminal court (ICC) at the Hague has issued arrest warrants for Russia’s ex-minister of defence and current army chief of staff for war crimes in Ukraine after a missile campaign targeting Ukrainian power plants and other civilian infrastructure during the full-scale invasion.
Ex-minister of defence, Sergei Shoigu, and the current chief of the general staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, were accused of the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and of causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects. They were also accused of crimes against humanity.