Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to Russian media reports.
Mr Putin, who arrived in a helicopter, travelled around several districts of the city, making stops and talking to residents, according to Russia's TASS state-owned news agency, citing the Kremlin.
It is believed to be his first trip to Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia since its invasion last year. The visit follows the widely-condemned annexation of the regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia in September. The visit comes as Mr Putin visited Crimea - which was annexed by Russia in 2014 - to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine.
Mariupol, a strategically important city located in the Donetsk Oblast and beside the Sea of Azov, was the site of some of the fiercest fighting in the early part of the war.
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