Vladimir Putin angered Ukrainians when he took part in a biker festival in the capital of Crimea over the weekend. The Russian president, wearing an all-leather outfit, rode into town on a massive motorcycle to be the guest of honor at the event sponsored by the right-wing Night Wolves motorcycle group, whose members were vocal supporters of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called the visit a “blatant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty” and called state-run Russian media “pathetic” for treating the trip as a routine outing.
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