days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been destroyed. that there were ruins of buildings being demolished and much of the city was also empty because ukrainians has fled. putin was shown meeting a couple of people who were living in what were described as newly constructed apartment buildings. those people thanked putin for their new homes saying they had had nothing before that. and we ve been hearing some pre
days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been
and did you direct any of your officials to help you do that? translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. pretty interesting tweet to say the least from the president there. the white house said last week discussions are under way for vladimir putin to visit what ug this fall the gop leaders say they have no intention of inviting putin to the u.s. capitol. watch this. well, we would certainly not be giving him an invitation to do a joint session. that s something we reserve for alies. i can only speak for the congress. the speaker and i made it clear putin will not be welcome up here at the capitol. so the kremlin, meanwhile, has not yet even accepted trump s invitation for a washington summit. a kremlin aid told reporters yesterday, there are other options quote to meet. he says the upcoming g20 summit and went open to say i think it