The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September.
Critics complain that some of the homeless people served by the mayor’s Inside Safe program have been shuffled from hotel to hotel.by Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expected to provide a major diplomatic boost to Putin in his confrontation with the West.
White House National Security Council spokesman John F. Kirby told “Fox News Sunday” that any call for a cease-fire in Ukraine coming out of the Putin-Xi meeting would be unacceptable to the U.S. because it would only “ratify Russia’s conquest to date,” and give Moscow “time to refit, retrain, re-man and try to plan for a renewed offensive.”
Peskov said the trip had been unannounced, and that Putin intended to “inspect the work of the [command] post in its ordinary mode of operation.” Mykhailo Podolyak, chief of staff for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, heaped scorn on Putin’s trip to Mariupol.
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