Daily Mail News UK
By WILL STEWART and CHRISTIAN OLIVER
PUBLISHED: 05:35 EDT, 30 September 2023 | UPDATED: 09:19 EDT, 30 September 2023
Vladimir Putin has appeared with a peculiar and unexplained dark mark on his forehead after he vowed to claim full victory in illegally incorporating Ukrainian regions into Russia.
The Russian president, who turns 71 next week, pledged ‘nothing and no-one’ will stop him as he declared September 30 ‘Reunification Day’ – one year since Moscow formally claimed the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as its own.
Putin addressed his people as Ukraine staged a kamikaze drone strike which knocked out power for a swathe of Russian border region Bryansk.