The Russian President made a surprise visit to the Kherson and Lugansk regions in southern and eastern Ukraine, respectively. Vladimir Putin.
According to the Kremlin, the Russian president met with the military stationed there as part of the Russian operation launched more than a year ago.
The message from the Russian presidency does not specify when this visit took place. However, it is noted that the President of Russia greeted the military in the Kherson and Lugansk regions on the occasion of the celebration of Orthodox Easter the day before yesterday, on Sunday, and presented them with religious icons.
“The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation left for the headquarters of the Dnepr military unit in the Kherson region,” the report says.
This is Putin’s first visit to the Kherson region since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Russian president met there with the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, General Mikhail Teplinsky, and other senior military officials to discuss the situation in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, which Russia announced annexation in September.
“It is important for me to know your point of view on the situation, to listen to you, to exchange information,” the Russian president said in a Kremlin video broadcast.
Trip to Lugansk
The Russian army left the city of Kherson, the capital of the region of the same name, in November 2022 to transfer to the other side of the Dnieper.
According to the Kremlin, Putin also visited the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine, also his first visit there, to meet with members of the General Staff of the Russian National Guard stationed in the region.
In March, Putin made a surprise visit to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, and Mariupol, a major Ukrainian port that Russian troops besieged for months and took control of in May 2022.
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