Putin Visits Mariupol, Flaunts Arrest Warrant

• 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.”

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