President Vladimir Putin's visit to Mariupol comes days after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov in the Donetsk region, has been under Russian control since May and was illegally annexed in September.Russian President Vladimir Putin made a weekend visit to the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, inspecting reconstruction work and visiting the home of at least one local resident, the Kremlin said in aPutin arrived Saturday night in the port city that has been under Russian control since May and was illegally annexed by Moscow in September.
Putin flew in by helicopter, and then drove through the city inspecting reconstruction work in several neighborhoods, the statement said. It was Putin's Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted that as the civilized world announced the arrest warrants,"the murderer of thousands of Mariupol families came to admire the ruins" of the city and its graves.Developments:
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