To celebrate the 8th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin made a point of addressing the Russian people… before an incident came to disrupt his speech.
After a few minutes of intervention, Russian President Vladimir Putin disappeared from television on Friday March 18 in the middle of a speech during a major concert at the Moscow stadium.
Vladimir Putin was praising the courage of the Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine, in front of tens of thousands of people, when suddenly the Russian public television channel Rossiya-24 started showing other moments of the same event, official speeches and popular songs.
“a technical failure on a server”
Fifteen minutes later, television resumed broadcasting the Russian president’s speech on a delayed basis.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov then told Russian agencies that the broadcast had been interrupted due to a “technical failure on a server”.