(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 19 - Vladimir Putin has promised that Moscow will build other residential districts in Mariupol, in the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk.
During his visit to the eastern Ukrainian city, Putin spoke to a local resident, who described the place as "a little corner of paradise", according to the Tass news agency.
And the Russian president said: "We will expand it."
Tass reports that Putin's visit to Mariupol began yesterday evening.
According to Putin, the Ukrainian military, before leaving Mariupol, had mined the local medical facilities: "Normal people don't do this", commented the Russian president, quoted by Tass.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who is accompanying Putin on his visit, said he visited Mariupol immediately after his "liberation" and that he saw "with his own eyes" that "refugees are staying in nearby buildings, where patients were also hospitalized and where surgical operations were performed".
"All medical services - says Khusnullin, quoted by Tass - had been undermined".
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