Such information was disseminated in Russian propaganda media and on telegram channels broadcasting pro-Russian rhetoric. The report says that the International Criminal Court in the Hague allegedly acquitted the Russian army. Like, the court did not find war crimes committed by the Russian military in Ukraine. However, this is not true.

The propagandists’ reports also said that since the court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Volodymyr Putin concerns the suspicion of committing only one war crime: the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine. That is, propagandists conclude that the deportation of children is the only thing Russia is generally accused of. Like, this means that neither Russia nor its military is to blame for anything else.

In fact, according to StopFake, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Volodymyr Putin exclusively in the case of illegal deportation to Russia of children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Fact-checkers add that this does not yet apply to other possible crimes, since the court, according to lawyer Dmytro Koval, selects only the highest priority cases.

By spreading such fakes, Russian propaganda seeks to create the appearance that the Russian army is doing everything right and it does not harm civilians in Ukraine. This allegedly confirms the thesis of the Russian propaganda that the Russians bring peace.