.Russian President Vladimir Putin will explore Mongolia next full week, the Kremlin announced Thursday, denoting his initial journey to a nation that is lawfully bound to imprison as well as hand him over to the International Wrongdoer Court (ICC).Last March, the ICC issued a warrant for Putin's apprehension over complaints that Moscow unlawfully expelled Ukrainian little ones among its own ongoing invasion, currently in its own third year. Mongolia is one of the signatories of the Rome Statute, the treaty controling the ICC, creating it actually bound to abide by the court's requirements.Depending on to the Kremlin, Putin is going to visit Mongolia at the invitation of its own head of state to memorialize the 1939 Soviet-Mongolian success over Japan in the Struggle of Khalkhin Gol." The presidents will explain prospects for more advancement of the Russian-Mongolian thorough important collaboration," the Kremlin pointed out in a declaration.Mongolia, a longtime ally of Russia, has preserved a neutral stance on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, making it extremely unlikely that Ulaanbaatar would certainly confine Putin.A comparable scenario happened last year when South Africa, which is actually likewise a Rome Statute signatory, sought an exemption to enable the Russian forerunner to join a BRICS summit. Putin essentially opted for to skip the celebration.Previously this week, Russia and also Mongolia stored shared military exercises dubbed Selenga-2024.