- Russia President Vladimir Putin late Saturday visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed this past fall.
- Putin went to Mariupol after visiting Crimea, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
- The Russia leader went to Mariupol to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine.
- Putin has yet to comment on the arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, which the Kremlin says it considers “legally null and void.”
