Vladimir Putin was greeted by the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on Saturday on an unannounced go to to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin was greeted by the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, and brought to see a brand new kids’s centre and artwork college on what the official mentioned was a shock go to.

State media didn’t instantly broadcast any remarks from Vladimir Putin, a day after the International Criminal Court mentioned it had issued an arrest warrant towards him and accused him of the struggle crime of illegally deporting lots of of youngsters from Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has but to remark publicly on the transfer. His spokesman has known as it “null and void”, and mentioned that Russia finds the very questions raised by the ICC to be “outrageous and unacceptable”.

Russia seized Crimea in 2014, eight years earlier than launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine says it can combat to expel Russia from Crimea and all different territory that Russia has occupied within the year-long struggle.

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