Bravado. Vladimir Putin personally visited Crimea this Saturday on the occasion of the 9ᵉ anniversary of the annexation of the Ukrainian province. The day before, an international warrant was issued for the arrest of the Russian president for a war crime. “illegal deportation” Ukrainian children. With this arrest warrant, which the 123 signatories of the Rome Statute could theoretically enforce on their soil, the Kremlin’s master’s ability to move was severely curtailed.
Vladimir Putin’s surprise trip to the peninsula was covered from beginning to end by the Russian state television Rossiya-1. Arriving in Sevastopol, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea, the owner of the Kremlin was notably present at the opening ceremony of the children’s art school, accompanied by the local governor. The city is located just 240 kilometers from Kherson, a southern Ukrainian city captured by the Kyiv army in November after the withdrawal of Russian troops. “Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin knows how to surprise– governor Razvodzhaev caught fire in Telegram, “in the good sense of the word”. According to him, the art school was originally supposed to open via videoconference.
“But Vladimir Vladimirovich came personally. Himself. Driving. Because on such a historic day as today, he is always with Sevastopol and its residents”continued the Russian governor of this peninsula, whose annexation by Moscow in March 2014 has not been recognized by the international community. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in January that he intends to take back Crimea by force of arms, while Moscow continues to insist that “Russian Crimea”and refuses to make it the subject of possible peace negotiations.
Putin drives his own car
Vladimir Putin went there in person, also in his own car, last December. The episode then showed him driving across the Kerch Bridge to oversee the progress of work, two months after the structure that connected the peninsula to Russia was partially destroyed by an explosion. However, the trip, if it took place under the conditions described, was only announced a posteriori.
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Since Friday, the Russian president has been targeted by an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which charges him with a war crime. “illegal deportation” Ukrainian children. Kremlin rules “invalid” the warrant, which was announced on the day Moscow and Beijing announced Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia next week, was to open “new era” between two allies. The issuance of an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state, who is also a member of the UN Security Council, is an unprecedented move for the ICC, created in 2002 but not recognized by Moscow.
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