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Mariupol was razed to the ground. Thousands of civilians have died in the Ukrainian port city, some have been displaced. Today, Russia considers the annexed city as its own territory and is building new housing in the ruins.
Vladimir Putin (70) visited the captured city for the first time since the start of the war over the weekend. The recordings are published on the Kremlin’s website. It should show him as a man of the people. But a woman puts a spoke in his wheel.
“All this is not true!”
You see how Putin talks to the victims of Mariupol. The meeting with a few pro-Kremlin residents in the newly built Nevsky district seems completely coincidental. “We didn’t expect that at all, can we say hello?” a man asks. Putin goes to the residents and shakes hands. “Do you live here?” Putin asks calmly.
At that moment, a woman can be heard in the background shouting: «None of this is true! It’s just a show!”
Putin’s Deputy Prime Minister Marat Chusnullin (56), who accompanied Putin in Mariupol, then turns to look for the woman. However, she is not visible in the photo.
A “little piece of paradise” in Mariupol
Putin himself is not deterred by the troublemaker and continues to talk. “Do you like it?” he asks. The residents agree.
“I had nothing left,” says an old man and reports on how he experienced the bombing in Mariupol. “Then they gave me this apartment,” he continues. Russian troops destroyed and bombed much of the port city.
“Thanks for the win,” says a tearful woman. “We have a little piece of paradise.” A man invites the Russian president to look at the apartment. “As long as it doesn’t cause a nuisance,” Putin says and follows the residents.
Putin in a parka worth 12,000 francs
Together they go to the three-room apartment. Only the kitchen and hallway are shown. The cameramen clumsily squeeze behind the president in the small apartment. While Putin looks at the humble kitchen, he wears his Loro Piana parka worth 12,000 francs. There are four metal chairs around a set table. The walls are bare. “When we came to live here, there was nothing here,” explains the resident. Completely different from now.
Suddenly Putin seems uncomfortable with the invasion of the residents’ privacy in this way. He apologizes and eagerly leaves the “little piece of paradise”. He clearly doesn’t really want to be a man of the people anyway.
Source: Blick
I am Amelia James, a passionate journalist with a deep-rooted interest in current affairs. I have more than five years of experience in the media industry, working both as an author and editor for 24 Instant News. My main focus lies in international news, particularly regional conflicts and political issues around the world.
