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As the author of the article, Candres Martinez, noted, the visit to Mariupol was Putin’s closest trip to the front line in the last year.
“Two high-profile visits turned out to be a response from the Kremlin <…> after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest,” the journalist considered.
Putin arrived to Mariupol by helicopter, after which he drove around several districts of the city, making stops. The President also met with local residents and visited one of the families. It was noted that this was Putin’s first trip to the Donbass.
March 18 President visited Crimea on the anniversary of the inclusion of the peninsula into the Russia. He arrived at Sevastopol for the opening of the school of arts and the center “Korsun”. The trip of the Russian leader to Crimea was also not announced.
On March 17, it became known about the decision of the ICC to issue warrants for the “arrest” of Putin and the presidential commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.
