Vladimir Putin to skip BRICS summit in Brazil over ICC arrest warrant, Kremlin says
Jun 25, 2025 11:25 PM IST
Putin is needed by the Hague-based ICC for the alleged unlawful deportation of Ukrainian youngsters since he ordered his troops into the nation in 2022.
Vladimir Putin is not going to journey to Brazil for subsequent month’s BRICS summit as a result of excellent Worldwide Legal Court docket (ICC) arrest warrant on the Russian president, the Kremlin mentioned Wednesday.
Putin is needed by the Hague-based ICC for the alleged unlawful deportation of Ukrainian youngsters since he ordered his troops into the nation in 2022.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov instructed reporters Putin would take part within the July 6-7 BRICS heads of state summit in Rio de Janeiro through video hyperlink.
“This is because of sure difficulties within the context of the ICC’s necessities,” he added.
Putin routinely hails the BRICS membership as a counterweight to what he blasts as Western hegemony on the world stage.
A unfastened grouping of nations named after founding members Brazil, Russia, India and China, its members pledge to spice up commerce and cooperation, although it isn’t a commerce pact and has few institutional ties.
Brazil is a member of the ICC and would subsequently be obligated to execute the arrest warrant on Putin, ought to he have travelled to the summit.
The Kremlin chief final 12 months made a high-profile journey to Mongolia, in a present of defiance towards the order to detain him — his first journey to an ICC member for the reason that Hague-based courtroom issued its warrant in 2023.
Ulaanbaatar got here in for criticism from the courtroom and the European Union for letting Putin journey there.
