Vladimir Putin said on Friday he had “no other choice” than to run in the Russian presidential election in March 2024.
The vote will happen after almost a quarter of a century since the Russian President first came to power, and two years after he launched an assault on Ukraine.
“I am going to run for president,” Putin told a veteran of the conflict in Ukraine on the sidelines of a ceremony at the Kremlin.
“I understand that today there is no other choice,” he said, according to a broadcast by the state television channel Rossiya-24.
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