Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday visited Crimea on the ninth anniversary of the peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine, Russian state TV reported.
On the shock go to to the Black Sea port metropolis of Sevastopol, Putin visited an arts college accompanied by native governor Mikhail Razvozhayev, based on photographs broadcast on the channel Rossiya-1.
“Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin knows how to surprise. In a good way,” Razvozhayev stated on messaging app Telegram.
He stated Putin had been anticipated to participate within the opening of a kids’s artwork college by video hyperlink.
“But Vladimir Vladimirovich came in person. Himself. Behind the wheel. Because on such a historic day, the president is always with Sevastopol and the people of Sevastopol,” the Moscow-appointed official stated. — Agence France-Presse
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