The Sunday visit comes after Mr Putin travelled to Crimea in an unannounced weekend stopover and just two days after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
abc.net.au/news/vladimir-putin-visits-mariupol-surprise-tour-occupied-ukraine/102117756President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise weekend visit to the war-ravaged port of Mariupol, state media reported, in the Kremlin leader's first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine's Donbas region since the conflict began.
Mr Putin is yet to comment publicly on the ICC warrant, but his trips into Ukrainian territory claimed by Russia was seen by some observers as an act of defiance. Mr Putin flew by helicopter to Mariupol for "a working trip", Russian news agencies reported citing the Kremlin. While Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a number of trips to the battlefield to boost the morale of his troops and talk strategy, Mr Putin has largely remained inside the Kremlin while running what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
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