Russia has demanded that Ukraine extradite a number of people, including the head of the country’s SBU security service, over claims they are connected with “terrorist” acts.
The SBU immediately dismissed the Russian demand as “pointless” and said the Russian foreign ministry had “forgotten” that Vladimir Putin was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
A Russian foreign ministry statement listed violent incidents that have occurred in Russia since the full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, including bombings that killed the daughter of a prominent nationalist and a war blogger, and an incident in which a writer was seriously hurt.
The ministry said investigation of these incidents showed that “the traces of these crimes lead to Ukraine”.
Setup a trade. Russia gets Vasyl Maliuk (The Head of the Ukrainian SBU), if they hand over Putin for trial at The Hague for War Crimes. While I don’t believe Maliuk is guilty of anything (other than prosecuting clandestine actions in a defensive war), I also suspect he’d be enough of a patriot to take one for Ukraine, if meant Putin was held accountable for this war.