(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 18 - The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, arrived in Crimea to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the peninsula's annexation to Russia and in Sevastopol he was surprised to visit a children's centre.
The Russian president arrived driving a car to the port where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is stationed, visiting the 'Korsun' children's center a day after the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant against him, deeming it " responsible for the war crime of illegally deporting children from occupied parts of Ukraine to Russia".
Putin, dressed informally in a blue cardigan and dark trousers, also visited an art school accompanied by the governor Mikhail Razvojaev, as shown in a video released by RIA Novosti.