STORY: Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to the Black Sea peninsula on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of Crimea’s annexation. The casually dressed Putin was seen on state television with a group of officials. The visit had not been previously announced. Putin, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued by the International Criminal Court, was welcomed by the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Raswoschajew, who was installed by Russia and led to a children’s center and through the rooms of an art school. In violation of international law, Russia declared the Ukrainian peninsula part of its own territory in 2014. The war goal of the Ukrainian government in Kiev is the liberation of Crimea and all other Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.