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Russian state media said on Sunday that President Vladimir Putin had made a surprise visit to Mariupol, which would be his first visit to the regions annexed by Russia in the Ukrainian region of Donbass since the start of the war.

The visit comes after Putin traveled to Crimea on Saturday on an unannounced visit to celebrate the ninth anniversary of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine, and just two days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him.