Vladimir Putin unexpectedly visited the Kherson and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, which are currently occupied by Russia. | Fountain: AFP
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday visited the headquarters of two military units fighting in regions of Ukraine Kherson and Luhansk, annexedr Russia last September, where he inquired about the situation on the southern and eastern fronts, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
“The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation visited the headquarters of the Dnieper group in the Kherson direction,” the Russian president said in a brief statement posted on his website about the first visit Putin at the head of this region in almost 14 months of military campaign in Ukraine.
The Kremlin also announced the visit Putin to the “headquarters of the “Vostok” militia in the Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is also the first trip of the president to this Ukrainian province.
According to him KremlinAt the headquarters of the Dnieper grouping, the President of Russia heard reports from the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, the commander of this grouping of troops, Colonel General Oleg Makarevich and other military leaders.
The press secretary of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, in turn, specified that the visit Putin in Kherson and Luhansk took place the day before and is connected with the president’s desire to “receive operational information on the ground” about the course of the military campaign in Ukraine. “Now the president visits new regions more and more often,” he stressed.
The President of Russia asked the military leaders to start informing him “about the situation in the Kherson, and then in the Zaporozhye directions.”
This is the first visit Putin to the Kherson region, which Russian troops they only partially control and from the northern third of which they withdrew last November. On March 19, he visited Mariupol, the eastern region of Donetsk.
Tour “enjoy your crimes”, says Ukraine
Ukraine was accused on Tuesday Vladimir Putin to go to the place of their “crimes” after the announcement by the Kremlin of the unexpected visit of the President of Russia to Kherson and Luhansk, the occupied regions of the south and east of Ukraine.
This trip “is a ‘special tour’ for the perpetrator of the massacres in the occupied and devastated territories to enjoy the crimes” committed by the Russian troops, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said on Twitter.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, citing the Kremlin, “the president’s trips Putin The Kherson region and the Lugansk People’s Republic, as well as the headquarters of the Dnieper and Eastern (groups) were not prepared in advance.
On the other hand, the president UkraineVolodymyr Zelensky promised on Tuesday that his government would return all of its soldiers to Russian captivity.
“From February 24 Ukraine returned 2235 Ukrainian men and women from Russian captivity. We remember everyone. We will return everyone and everyone, ”he wrote in his Telegram account.
The message is accompanied by an emotional video of Ukrainian soldiers returning from Russian captivity, in which the Ukrainian president assures that Ukraine He does not stop his efforts to bring them all home. “I am happy every time we receive it,” says Zelensky, who thanks everyone involved in the release of the captives. (According to EFE and AFP)
Source: RPP
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