Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a “working visit” to the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol after making a surprise trip to Crimea yesterday. It is the first time since the beginning of the war and after the arrest warrant from the court in The Hague that the Russian President is in the Donbass.
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Putin paid a “working visit” to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the Kremlin’s press service said, quoted by the Russian news agency Tass. The visit took place on Saturday evening and during the night from Saturday to Sunday.
Putin “inspected several places in the city and spoke to local residents,” Moscow explains, adding that the Russian president “flew to Mariupol by helicopter; he drove a vehicle through the city streets and stopped at various places.” Just a few days ago, the Russian military administration inaugurated a helicopter platform at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, which was a stronghold of Ukrainian defense for months before it surrendered last May. According to renewed information from the Kremlin, Putin also held a meeting with military leaders at the command post of the “military special operation” ongoing in Ukraine in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
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KIEV (Portal) – Ukrainian authorities of Mariupol, a port city under Russian control since May 2022, have denounced the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they have described as an “international criminal”. (HAND)
The Russian President has promised that Moscow will build more Residential district in Mariupol, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. During his visit to the eastern Ukrainian city, Putin spoke to a local resident who described the place as a “little corner of paradise,” the Tass news agency reported. And the Russian President said: “We will expand it.”
THE resident of Mariupol who left the city during the fighting are returning of their own accord and the city’s census population is growing, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said while speaking with President Vladimir Putin during their visit to Ukraine’s occupied martyr’s city, which died in May last spring Ukraine was annexed by the Russian Federation. Tass writes it. “People spontaneously came back when they saw that reconstruction is underway and the census is growing,” Khusnullin said, speaking to Putin in a video reported by Russia’s Tass news agency. The Russian Deputy Prime Minister added that “jobs will be created” in Mariupol and that “each company in the city will be classified based on how much and who invests, from what source, who is responsible and how many jobs will be created”. he says, quoted by Tass.
The airport Mariupol is already in military use and its reconstruction is planned for 2025, when it will be open for commercial flights, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the Russian-annexed city. Khusnullin also said the city’s port is in good condition and is being used as a transhipment point, Tass news agency reported. The airport building “will be reconstructed at the end of 2023. It is planned to be a full-fledged airport with the ability to fly to all Russian cities and abroad, (this) is planned for 2025. Now l “The nearest airport is in Rostov and Taganrog, 150 km away. So far it has been used for military purposes,” the deputy prime minister said in a video of Putin’s visit to the city.
return of the Kremlin Russian investigators are “accurately recording all crimes in Kiev, the files will provide the basis for a future court.” The Kremlin confirms this, as Tass announced.
Russia didn’t have hypersonic weapons in 2014, but now it does, said Vladimir Putin, as reported by Tass. The Russian President also stressed that in 2014 Moscow could not turn its back on Crimeans confronted with nationalists.
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