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2023-03-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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'Gesture of defiance.' Putin's visit to Mariupol impresses Western media
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Western analysts saw in Vladimir Putin's "spontaneous" trip to Mariupol a decision taken in defiance of an order from the International Criminal Court. What else did Europe and the USA see in the president's working visit to new territories?
“This visit appears to have been a gesture of defiance — just a day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader… — and a demonstration of Putin’s determination to continue to crack down on Ukraine ahead of the arrival in Moscow of Chinese President Xi Jinping, a key economic partner," write Matthew Bigg, Ivan Nechepurenko and Andres Martinez in their column for The New York Times.
On March 18, the Russian leader, we recall, visited Sevastopol. The next day, the president arrived in Mariupol by helicopter: this was the first visit of a Russian president to the territory of the DPR. In the city, Putin, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin , made an automobile inspection of a number of territories, talked with local residents and listened to a report on how the restoration work was going.
Immediately after inspecting Mariupol, Putin made a trip to the command post of the Northern Military District in Rostov-on-Don: there he held a meeting, heard reports from the Chief of the General Staff - First Deputy Minister of Defense General Valery Gerasimov and a number of military leaders.
Some Western media linked Vladimir Putin's visit to the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, whose jurisdiction Russia does not recognize (and whose decisions it regards as legally null and void), which the day before announced the issuance of an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin and the Ombudsman for Children in Russia by Maria Lvova-Belova.
The German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was surprised to note that Putin's morale had not been affected by the ICC's recent actions to arrest him.
"Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has shown that he is not impressed by the latest punitive measures against him," and therefore he made a significant visit to the front-line Mariupol, and - on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the return of Crimea - arrived in Sevastopol, where the Black Sea Fleet is based, the German newspaper explained to its readers. newspaper.
Reviewers for The New York Times noted that Mariupol is only 50 miles (about 80 km) from the city of Vuhledara, where fierce fighting is now taking place. According to the American publication, Putin's unexpected trip to the Donbass was a message to the "Russian hawks" - by which the NYT means supporters of the continuation of the special operation. The trip showed that the president "morally supports the Russian soldiers," and the interview was intended to "beat off" any criticism of the president, the New York newspaper points out.
Experts from the Washington Institute for the Study of War (ISW) also spoke almost word for word . According to them, the Russian president went to Mariupol to "create the impression of invulnerability" and "present himself as a leader who took part in hostilities." According to ISW, the Kremlin framed Putin's trip to Mariupol "as spontaneous, in order to present Putin as an invincible wartime leader who can safely visit a war zone."
"Putin also probably wanted his visit to be in response to an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest… Putin probably wanted to present his role… as being outside the jurisdiction of the international community and himself as being safe from the Ukrainian military stationed 80 km to the north," Washington analysts noted.
The Institute for the Study of War also admitted that Putin's trip to Mariupol was aimed at "dispelling a long-standing and widespread fear in the nationalist space of a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive in southern Ukraine."
Journalist Rostyslav Averchuk, in a column for La Razón, argues that although Mariupol is now relatively far from the front line, it could become "one of the possible targets of the expected Ukrainian counteroffensive, which could try to cut off the Russian land corridor to the Crimea in the south."
National Public Radio's Moscow correspondent Charles Maines suggested in Sunday's Weekend Edition that Putin's trip was a response "to President Biden's trip to Kiev a month ago, given that it was Putin's first trip" to the area since the start of the NWO.
The British edition of The Guardian did not comment on Vladimir Putin's trip to Mariupol: instead, a caricature of the event by artist Ben Jennings was published, where the Russian leader is depicted in the manner of Pablo Picasso against the backdrop of a destroyed city with a Mariupol sign. Behind the Russian leader hangs a banner with the Russian tricolor and the inscription Mission accomplished (“Mission accomplished”).
Gonzalo Aragones , a columnist for the Spanish edition of La Vanguardia, believes that Vladimir Putin "seeks to show that he is making efforts to restore the city."
The journalist also drew attention to the words of Deputy Prime Minister Khusnullin, who announced plans to complete the reconstruction of Mariupol by the end of the year - at least, "its front part."
March 20, 2023
Alexander Tishchenko
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