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Russia has a veto right only in the UN Security Council. For prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this is irrelevant. What matters is that Ukraine has accepted the ICC's jurisdiction over all alleged crimes committed on its territory since 20 February 2014.[1] The nationality of the perpetrator is irrelevant, and no one has immunity.

[1] https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=pr1146&ln=en

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> the International Criminal Court (ICC)

The USA passed a law that its armed forces can invade the Hague if the ICC ever tried to charge the US.

It shows the farce of all of this - fresh from murdering Afghanis, Iraqis, Somalis, Syrians, and by proxy Yemeni, Palestinians etc., the US presses fir a "court" to try Russia in some sanctimonious exercise that it can not be a subject of.

That doesn't mean the rest of the world needs to give Russia and Putin a free pass.

Two wrongs does not make a right.

That said, Russia just as USA have nukes, so Putin will never go to ICC, and its waist of time discussing it.

It might not be nice, just or fair but if you have nuke, you are for all intense and purpose immune, unless your own country prosecutes you or gives you ower.

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