The former U.S. national security adviser said the warrant could harm peace negotiations for the war in Ukraine.
Bolton made the comments during an interview with Sky News in which he discussed the ICC's Friday announcement that it had issued a warrant for Putin for war crimes.
of being"allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation."told reporters that the Russian Federation does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC and thus considers the warrant"null and void."
He continued,"The International Criminal Court is illegitimate because it is an exercise of governmental power in a vacuum without any constitutional framework to restrain it. And it's a very dangerous institution."
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