Vladimir Putin drove himself to central Moscow, where he hugged a former school teacher and invited her for dinner at the Kremlin, a video released by the Russian government on Monday (11 May) shows.
Footage showed the Russian leader in the driver’s seat of an Aurus Komendant, a Russian luxury car brand, arriving at a hotel.
Putin, dressed informally and carrying flowers, hugged his former school teacher, Vera Gurevich, in the hotel lobby.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin invited Ms Gurevich to Moscow for the WW2 Victory Day parade on Red Square on 9 May, and she had stayed at the central Moscow hotel.