Russia-Ukraine War News: Putin Visits Crimea, Mariupol; Xi visits Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a surprise visit to Mariupol, a frontline city devastated last year in a deadly Russian siege, ignoring an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. It was his second weekend foray into the occupied areas, which the Kremlin press service on Sunday described as a “working trip”. The Kremlin also said in a statement that Putin visited the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, Crimea, on Saturday, on the ninth anniversary of Russia’s 2014 illegal annexation of the Eastern peninsula. Ukraine.