The Ukrainian Protection Ministry said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin visited the occupied metropolis of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast through the night time on March 19 “as befits a thief” for safety causes and so as to not present the true view of the destroyed metropolis.
“Darkness permits him to spotlight what he needs to indicate, and retains town his military fully destroyed and its few surviving inhabitants away from prying eyes,” the assertion learn.
Throughout Putin’s first go to to Mariupol, which has been fully occupied since Could 2022, he reportedly visited a number of districts of town by automotive after flying to town by way of helicopter.
The go to got here a number of days after Putin additionally made a brief go to to occupied Crimea on the anniversary of the peninsula’s unlawful annexation by Russia.