Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on Saturday to celebrate the ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014, Russian state television reported.
During a surprise visit to Sevastopol, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, Putin attended an art school with local governor Mikhail Razvoyaev, according to television footage.
“Our president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin knows how to surprise. In the good sense of the word,” Razvoyaev wrote in the Telegram application.
According to Razvoyaev, a children’s art school was to be inaugurated this Saturday with the participation of the Russian leader via video conference.
“But Vladimir Vladimirovich came in person. He came himself. At the wheel. Because on a historic day like today, he is always with Sevastopol and his people,” said the local governor.
Source: DN
