The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for prime Russian commanders Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov over alleged warfare crimes in Ukraine, it stated in a press release on Tuesday.

The ICC, primarily based in The Hague, stated there have been cheap grounds to imagine that the 2 suspects have been answerable for “missile strikes carried out by the forces under their command against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023”.

This is the second set of warrants for the arrest of Russian officers associated to the warfare in Ukraine.

In March final 12 months the ICC issued warrants for the arrest of President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova on warfare crimes costs associated to the kidnapping of Ukrainian kids. The Kremlin rejects the allegations.

Kobylash, 58, was the commander of the so-called long-range aviation of the Russian air pressure on the time of the alleged crimes. Sokolov, 61, was an admiral within the Russian navy who commanded the Black Sea Fleet throughout the interval to which the costs relate, in keeping with the ICC.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed the ICC resolution to problem arrest warrants for the 2 Russian commanders.

“Every Russian commander who orders strikes against Ukrainian civilians and critical infrastructure must know that justice will be served. Every perpetrator of such crimes must know that they will be held accountable,” he stated on the social media platform X.

The ICC on Tuesday stated the assaults on Ukraine’s electrical grid triggered civilian hurt and harm that might have been clearly extreme to any anticipated army benefit.

Russia denies intentionally concentrating on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, saying its assaults are all supposed to scale back Kyiv’s potential to struggle.

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan visited Ukraine in March final 12 months to analyze Russia’s marketing campaign of missile and drone assaults on energy vegetation and different infrastructure which have killed lots of of civilians and left thousands and thousands with no electrical energy or water.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin posted a message on X calling the warrants “another milestone on our path to restoring justice”.

The Geneva conventions and extra protocols formed by worldwide courts say that events concerned in a army battle should distinguish between “civilian objects and military objectives” and that assaults on civilian objects are forbidden.