Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, Russian state television reported.
On a surprise visit to Sevastopol, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, Putin visited an arts school with local governor Mikhail Razvojaev, according to television footage.
“Our president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin knows how to surprise. In the good sense of the word,” Razvojaev wrote on the Telegram app.
According to Razvojaev, an art school for children would be inaugurated this Saturday with the participation of the Russian leader via videoconference.
“But Vladimir Vladimirovich came personally. He came himself. At the wheel. Because on a historic day like today, he is always with Sevastopol and his people,” the local governor said.
Source: TSF
