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A fearless Ukrainian woman defiantly shouted 'It's all lies, it's all for show' at Vladimir Putin during his visit to the occupied city of Mariupol.
Video shows the brave Mariupol resident heckling the Russian leader as he put on a staged show of meeting supposedly grateful Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol.
In the footage, which was posted on the Kremlin's website, the woman can be heard shouting, 'It's all lies, it's all for show' in a move that would have seen her face the wrath of Putin's security forces if they found her.
The woman's heckling, which appears to have come from a nearby building, prompts Putin's security guards to begin frantically looking around to identify where the woman's voice came from.
However, the security officials are unable to identify the brave Ukrainian woman.
A fearless Ukrainian woman defiantly shouted 'It's all lies, it's all for show' at Vladimir Putin during his visit to the occupied city of Mariupol
Video shows the brave Mariupol resident heckling the Russian leader as he put on a staged show of meeting supposedly grateful Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol
In the video, Putin continued to speak to supposed Mariupol residents outside what looked like a newly built residential complex and asked them if they liked everyone.
Despite the heckling in the background, the 'locals' nodded vigorously and said that they lived in Mariupol, a southern Ukrainian city that was razed to the ground by invading Russian forces.
Putin's visit to Mariupol marks the Russian despot's first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September.
He arrived in Mariupol late on Saturday after visiting Crimea, south-west of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
Following Putin's visit, Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak said on Sunday Putin had returned to view the city's 'graves' after Mariupol faced some of the worst shelling seen during the invasion so far.
'The criminal always returns to the crime scene... the murderer of thousands of Mariupol families came to admire the ruins of the city and (its) graves. Cynicism and lack of remorse,' Podolyak said on Twitter.
Mariupol became a worldwide symbol of resistance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it in May. Much of the city was pounded to rubble by Russian shelling.
The timing of Putin's 'spontaneous' visit to contested areas will raise concerns for the West, as they took place just days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.
Speaking to the state RIA-Novosti agency, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin made clear that Russia was in Mariupol to stay. He said the government hoped to finish the reconstruction of its blasted downtown by the end of the year.
'People have started to return. When they saw that reconstruction is under way, people started
