Wow! Russian President Putin is in Mariupol, checking out the newly constructed buildings and talking to citizens!!
Mariupol has a bright future as a part of Russia. It will once again become an industrial powerhouse and also a key hub in China’s Belt and Road Initiative! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻… https://t.co/B6NbB2Y5UA pic.twitter.com/qqm2XSP2xZ
— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) March 19, 2023
#Putin meets with ppl of #Mariupol
They were taken aback bc this was very unexpected. He is asking them if they like the new buildings that have been built for them. pic.twitter.com/wyKGT2zhNI— Arthur Morgan (@ArthurM40330824) March 19, 2023
Putin in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic pic.twitter.com/GxWHNADZPG
— Trollstoy (@Trollstoy88) March 19, 2023
Putin is such a great leader of the people.
He demonstrates that in modern times, you can have a leader that gives freedom and prosperity to the people if you are able to break the chains of democracy.
A day after being accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, scene of some of the worst devastation of his year-old invasion.
State television showed extended footage of Putin being shown around the city on Saturday night, meeting rehoused residents and being briefed on reconstruction efforts by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
The port city of Mariupol became known around the world as a byword for death and destruction as much of it was reduced to ruins in the first months of the war, eventually falling to Russian forces in May.
Hundreds were killed in the bombing of a theatre where families with children were sheltering. The Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe (OSCE) said Russia’s early bombing of a maternity hospital there was a war crime. Moscow denied that and has said since it invaded on Feb. 24 last year that it does not target civilians.
Putin’s visit had the air of a gesture of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on Friday, accusing him of the war crime of deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.
He has not publicly commented on the move, but his spokesman said it was legally “null and void” and that Russia found the very questions raised by the ICC to be “outrageous and unacceptable”.
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Putin’s trip to Mariupol took place in darkness. State TV showed him at the wheel of a car, driving through the city in the company of his deputy prime minister, Khusnullin, and being briefed in detail on the rebuilding of housing, bridges, hospitals, transport routes and a concert hall.
State media said he visited a new residential neighbourhood that had been built by Russian military with the first people moving in last September.
“Do you live here? Do you like it?” Putin was shown asking residents.
“Very much. It’s a little piece of heaven that we have here now,” a woman replied, clasping her hands and thanking Putin for “the victory”.
He’s not afraid of no Hohol scum, or the Jews.
⚡️4 minute video of Putin driving around Mariupol.
I will accept apologies under this. pic.twitter.com/xe4Uppfmbz
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) March 19, 2023
The ridiculous thing is that Putin’s approval rating is more than 3x greater than Joe Brandon’s.
Haha.
Ok https://t.co/N2aBpauXxh pic.twitter.com/1LH9clQtms
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) March 16, 2023
They keep saying that democracy means the people decide. But the people hate the results of democracy.
What does it all mean?