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.
Putin was greeted by the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, and brought to see a brand new kids’s centre and artwork faculty on what the official mentioned was a shock go to.
State media didn’t instantly broadcast any remarks from Putin, a day after the Worldwide Legal Courtroom mentioned it had issued an arrest warrant towards him and accused him of the conflict crime of illegally deporting lots of of kids from Ukraine.
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 battle to expel Russia from Crimea and all different territories that Russia has occupied within the year-long conflict.
Putin was greeted by the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, and brought to see a brand new kids’s centre and artwork faculty on what the official mentioned was a shock go to.
State media didn’t instantly broadcast any remarks from Putin, a day after the Worldwide Legal Courtroom mentioned it had issued an arrest warrant towards him and accused him of the conflict crime of illegally deporting lots of of kids from Ukraine.
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 battle to expel Russia from Crimea and all different territories that Russia has occupied within the year-long conflict.
