The spokesman of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed the information in Telegram, according to which the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, arrived at the Kremlin late on Wednesday evening, but explained this by the peculiarities of his work schedule, reports the Russian state agency TASS, citing. from News.ro.

Vladimir Putin in the KremlinPhoto: Government of Russia / Alamy / Alamy / Profimedia

“Indeed, Putin has arrived at the Kremlin,” Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Thursday after being asked by Kremlin-accredited journalists about a Telegram report that the Russian leader had arrived at the Russian president’s headquarters on Wednesday night. around 22:00 local time. The news went viral on social media and people wondered what the reason for this night visit was.

“Putin has an apartment in the Kremlin, where he often stays overnight. Yesterday he worked in Ogaryovo (the residence of the head of state near Moscow, not in Novo-Ogaryovo) and, having finished all his affairs in Ogaryovo, because today he had meetings in the Kremlin quite early, he came to the Kremlin.” , – explained Peskov.

The Kremlin spokesman called such steps by Putin “usual practice.”

“It happens very often,” he assured.

At the end of March, the Russian president said that he had an informal part of the negotiations with the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, on March 20 in the Kremlin apartment, where, “sitting by the fireplace and drinking tea,” the leaders talked for a long time. Putin also invited his Belarusian colleague Alexander Lukashenko to this apartment in early April, TASS notes.

Earlier, Peskov told the TASS agency that the head of state uses official apartments in the Kremlin wing “when his work schedule becomes tight”, and this happens “very often with the start of a military special operation” in Ukraine.

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