Should the Russian president be arrested abroad, it would be considered a declaration of war on the Russian Federation, said Dimitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council in an interview in which he hypothesised that if Putin were arrested in Germany, it would entail a threat to the Bundestag and the German chancellor's office.

Any country’s attempt to arrest Vladimir Putin based on the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC), would constitute a declaration of war against Russia, Dimitry Medvedev, the deputy-chairman of the Russian Security Council said on Thursday. As is known, the ICC issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest on 17 March.

„Imagine the following: the incumbent leader of a state having nuclear weapons arrives, for example, in Germany, and he is arrested there. What would this be? A declaration of war against the Russian Federation.”

Medvedev said in the interview with journalists.

He added that in such a case

„all our equipment, rockets and everything else would be pointed at the Bundestag, the chancellor’s office and similar buildings.”

Medvedev also recalled the words of German Justice Minister Mark Buschmann, who stated that he was ready to fulfil ICC’s demand and arrest Putin „should he step on German soil.”

„Does he understand that this is a casus belli, a declaration of war? Or wasn’t he properly educated?”

the politician asked.

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The vice-president of the Security Council called ICC a „legal non-entity”, and said that the court’s decision creates „colossal negative potential” amidst already bad relations between Russia and the West.

The West is striving to destabilise politics in Russia and to tear the country apart.

„Do they need a country with vast territory and possessing the strongest nuclear shield, a country which, moreover, does not obey the Americans? Of course they don’t,” Medvedev said. Therefore, the West’s „desire is very simple – to destabilise the political situation, to divide the country into several parts of a size that would be appropriate [for the West], to make agreements with individually, to denuclearise and demilitarise them all, and then to offer its [security] services,” Mr Medvedev opined. He also pointed out that „these parts even have a chance to join NATO, especially if they give up our national resources.”

„They [the Western countries] don’t want an equal partnership with us because they don’t need one,” Mr Medvedev said, adding that the same applies to the West’s attitude towards China.

The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council stressed that the „so-called Anglo-Saxon world” „tries to manage everything, and up to a certain point, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, they succeeded.” „Then suddenly China started to develop rapidly, and later we shook off the pressure and started to behave independently.

They don’t like that at all, so there will be no peace in the years, or even decades to come,”

Mr Medvedev added, stressing that

if Russia did not have superior strategic nuclear forces, it would certainly be torn apart.

He believes that Russia has an advantage over the West in terms of strategic nuclear forces. Nuclear supremacy is the backbone of the country that serves to preserve Russia, Dimitriy Medvedev concluded.