Kremlin reports Putin’s visit to Mariupol

Dhe President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced new sanctions by his country against Russia and its allies Iran and Syria. “Ukrainian sanctions are part of the global pressure on Russia,” the 45-year-old said in his daily video address on Saturday. 400 people and companies are affected by the measure, said Zelenskyj.

Meanwhile, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has remained unimpressed by the latest punitive measures against him – the issuance of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court – shown. The 70-year-old visited the occupied Ukrainian territory for the first time on Saturday and drove through the destroyed port city of Mariupol. Shortly before, he used the ninth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to appear in the port city of Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is also based.

Syria starting point for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

In his video message, Zelenskyy made the passivity of the international community in Syria a few years ago, when Putin kept President Bashar al-Assad in power there with his bombs, the start of the war in Syria Ukraine responsible. “The people of Syria have not received adequate international protection and this has given the Kremlin and its accomplices a sense of impunity,” Zelenskyy said.

“There is only one way to save life – it is necessary to expel the Russian army from Ukrainian soil. And we will do it,” Zelenskyy promised. In his weekly summary, he thought his country was on the right track. For example, Ukraine received a new armaments package with ammunition, artillery and combat aircraft from the West. In addition, there were larger rounds of negotiations with the United States about further armaments aid, the Ukrainian head of state said.

For the first time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied territories of the neighboring country. As the Kremlin announced on Sunday night, Putin had paid a “working visit” to the port city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea, which had been destroyed in heavy fighting. After his arrival in a helicopter, he informed himself about the situation during a tour and also talked to residents of the city, the state agency Tass reported. of Russia Deputy Prime Minister Marat Chusnullin informed Putin about the status of the reconstruction work.

Putin had just arrived on the ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea for an unannounced visit to the Black Sea Peninsula. “Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin knows how to surprise,” Moscow-appointed governor of the port city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Rasvozhayev, wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday. State television broadcast images of the Kremlin chief opening an art school for children in Sevastopol.