The International Criminal Court and Ukraine signed an agreement today on the operation of the Court’s office in the country, announced the ICC, which last week issued an international arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“It’s just the beginning, a good beginning,” Ukrainian Attorney General Andriy Kostin said of the deal he signed on his country’s behalf in The Hague, home of the International Criminal Court.

“I am convinced that we will not stop until the perpetrators of international crimes committed in Ukraine are brought to justice,” the attorney general added in his statement.

And this “regardless of their political or military position”, says Andrii Kostin, after welcoming the “historic” decision of the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant against Putin for the war crime of the displacement of Ukraine’s children.

The Ukrainian attorney general had announced in early March that Kyiv was preparing to open an office of the International Criminal Court.

Yesterday, the International Criminal Court’s legislative body denounced “threats” emanating from Russia against members of the Court following the issuance of arrest warrants against the Russian president and the Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child, Maria Lvova-Belova.

Russia announced on Monday the opening of a criminal investigation against the prosecutor and three judges of the International Criminal Court.

Dmitry Medvedev, a member of Russia’s Security Council, known for his delusional statements, advised, according to Dutch media, on the same day via Telegram that the judges of the ICC “look carefully at the sky”.

The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to try the most heinous crimes committed in the world. It operates seven offices: in Kinshasa and Bunia, Republic of Congo, Kampala, Uganda, Bangui, Central African Republic, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Tbilisi, Georgia and Bamako, Mali.