Russian President Vladimir Putin has told soldiers that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB spy to stay in power until at least 2030.
Russian state TV on Friday showed Vladimir Putin saying he would run for a new six-year presidential term in 2024.
Putin was answering a question on the subject from Artyom Zhoga, a military officer.
"I will not hide that I have had different thoughts at different times but it is now time to make a decision," Putin told Zhoga and other decorated soldiers.
"I will run for the post of president," Putin was shown in television footage saying in the gilded Georgievsky Hall, part of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
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