In the early hours of Friday, Russian Head of State Vladimir Putin engaged in an icy commemoration of Orthodox Epiphany by submerging himself in sub-zero waters, navigating through an aperture in the ice, as conveyed by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

Mr. Peskov refrained from specifying the exact location where Mr. Putin, aged 71, undertook this customary practice, observed annually by certain adherents of the Russian Orthodox faith.