Denis Pushilin, acting president of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mariupol in March this year gave the republic strength and deprived ill-wishers of the opportunity to say in the DPR that something could change for Ukraine. He announced this in the program “Moscow”. Kremlin. Putin on TV channel” “Russia 1”.
“This is the arrival of the president – it has given us new strength, and now for all the villains, this is a strikethrough opportunity to say that something can change, that some notorious counterattack can (something) change.”
According to him, he did not know in advance that Putin was planning to visit Mariupol.
Putin in March reached He went to Mariupol by helicopter, then got behind the wheel of a car and toured various districts of the city. He met with the inhabitants of the Nevsky microdistrict, studied the house, the Mariupol coastline, the theater building and other places of the city. When asked later by a journalist why he was going to an unsafe area, the president said it was a long overdue “pure business trip”.
On April 18, for the first time, it became clear who the head of state was. visit The headquarters of the Dnepr troops is in the direction of Kherson.