.Russian President Vladimir Putin will certainly visit Mongolia next week, the Kremlin announced Thursday, marking his very first excursion to a country that is actually officially obliged to apprehend and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).Final March, the ICC provided a warrant for Putin's arrest over accusations that Moscow illegally deported Ukrainian children among its continuous intrusion, currently in its own 3rd year. Mongolia is one of the signatures of the Rome Statute, the treaty regulating the ICC, making it practically tied to comply with the court's needs.According to the Kremlin, Putin is going to go to Mongolia at the invitation of its head of state to celebrate the 1939 Soviet-Mongolian success over Japan in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol." The presidents will definitely talk about leads for more development of the Russian-Mongolian complete calculated relationship," the Kremlin claimed in a declaration.Mongolia, a longtime ally of Russia, has kept a neutral standpoint on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, producing it extremely unlikely that Ulaanbaatar would detain Putin.A comparable condition took place in 2013 when South Africa, which is actually also a Rome Statute signature, found an exemption to permit the Russian leader to go to a BRICS top. Putin essentially chose to miss the event.Earlier recently, Russia and Mongolia held joint armed forces physical exercises referred to Selenga-2024.