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Russian president Putin visits occupied city of Mariupol
Updated On: 20 March, 2023 07:31 AM IST | Kyiv | Agencies
Putin arrived in Mariupol by helicopter and then drove himself around the city’s “memorial sites,” concert hall and coastline, Russian news reports said, without specifying exactly when the visit took place
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Russian President Vladimir Putin with Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin (left), at the Mariupol theater Sunday. Pic/AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the port city of Mariupol, Russian state news agencies reported on Sunday morning, in what would mark his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September. Mariupol became a worldwide symbol of defiance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it in May.
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