Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin visits Mariupol in first trip to occupied eastern Ukraine – as it happened
by Nadeem Badshah (now); Emily Dugan, Alexandra Toppi from on (#69YX1)
Russian president flew in by helicopter and then drove a car in several districts of the city, site of one of the war's bloodiest battles
The Financial Times' Moscow bureau chief Max Seddon has tweeted that, according to the Kremlin, Putin visited the restored Mariupol philharmonic
Russian state media is reporting that Vladimir Putin has today visited a command post in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Russian state-owned news agency TASS said Putin held a meeting at a military command and control post in the Russian city.
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