Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on Saturday on an unannounced go to to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia‘s annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine.
Putin was greeted by the Russian-put in governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, and taken to see a new youngsters’s centre and artwork faculty on what the official stated was a shock go to.
State media didn’t immediately broadcast any remarks from Putin, a day after the International Felony Courtroom stated it had issued an arrest warrant towards him and accused him of the warfare crime of illegally deporting lots of of youngsters from Ukraine.
Putin has yet to remark publicly on the transfer. His spokesman has referred to as it “null and void”, and stated that Russia finds the very questions raised by the ICC to be “outrageous and unacceptable”.
Russia seized Crimea in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine says it is going to battle to expel Russia from Crimea and all other territories that Russia has occupied within the yr-long conflict.