Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on Saturday, the day of the ninth anniversary of the annexation of this Ukrainian peninsula by Russia in 2014, announced Russian public television.
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On a surprise trip to Sevastopol, home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, Mr. Putin visited a school of the arts in the company of the local governor, Mikhail Razvojayev, according to images broadcast by the Rossia television channel. -1.
“Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin knows how to surprise. In the good sense of the word”, wrote on Telegram Mr. Razvojayev.
According to him, a school of arts for children was to be inaugurated on Saturday with the participation of the Russian leader by videoconference.
“But Vladimir Vladimirovich came in person. Himself. Driving. Because on a historic day like today, he is always with Sevastopol and its inhabitants,” said Mikhail Razvojayev.
