President Rodrigo Roa Duterte meets with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow prior to his return to the Philippines. President Duterte on May 24, 2017 opted to skip his scheduled engagements and cut his official visit to the Russian Federation short to attend to some pressing matters in the Philippines. He declared a state of Martial Law in Mindanao due to the terror crisis gripping Marawi City.
