Senior Kremlin leader says he has been visiting territories ‘liberated’ by Moscow’s forces
A residential building destroyed during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 3 2022. Picture: ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/REUTERS
Khusnullin, who is in charge of construction and urban development in Russia, said on Telegram he had visited Mariupol and eastern Ukrainian town of Volnovakha among other territories “liberated” by Russian forces. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Picture: SPUTNIK/ALEKSEY NIKOLSKYI/KREMLIN/REUTERS
The port, which lies between the Crimea Peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014 and parts of eastern Ukraine taken by Russian-backed separatists that year, is important to linking up the two Russian-held territories and blocking Ukrainian exports.
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