Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrates 70 years this Friday with his country immersed in the war in Ukraine, which he began in February with the invasion of the neighboring state.
The president has spent 22 of those years in power, either as president or prime minister.
This video includes 10 milestones in his political career, beginning with his arrival at the Kremlin at the hands of Boris Yeltsin and going through the sinking of the
Kursk
submarine , the assaults on the Moscow theater and the Beslan school, the poisoning of rivals such as the former spy Litvinenko or the opponent Navalni, or his interference in the United States elections to favor Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton.
Putin's intervention has also been decisive in guaranteeing the survival of Bashar al-Assad's regime in the war in Syria, and laid the foundations for the current war in Ukraine with the annexation of Crimea after Euromaidan and support for the pro-Russian separatists of the Donbas, which shot down the commercial flight MH-17 with a Russian missile.
Before he had also encouraged separatism in Georgia, with his intervention in the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The images of all those historical moments are collected in the video that accompanies the news.
