thehill.com The White House alerted the press at 10:20 a.m. Sunday that Biden would not be seen for the rest of the day. In reality, he had not even been in the building for several hours.
Biden left his famous address at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue even earlier that morning to fly to Poland. He then took a train to Kyiv, where he arrived early Sunday morning.
It was a surprise trip to the capital city of war-torn Ukraine roughly one year since Russian forces first launched an unprovoked invasion.
The president’s closely guarded travel was the product of months of planning that culminated with Biden standing side-by-side with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and declaring the U.S. and the world would support Ukraine for as long as it takes to win the war.
“It was logistically complicated and difficult, and it sends an incredibly powerful message that President Biden has faith in the Ukrainian people and is unwavering in his commitment to stand by them,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said of the trip.
Biden’s trip to Ukraine was “meticulously planned over a period of months,” deputy national security adviser Jon Finer told reporters on Monday. A small number of officials from the National Security Council, the Pentagon, Secret Service and the White House military office were involved in the planning, he said.
The trip to Ukraine differed from past unannounced presidential visits to war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan because the U.S. does not have an established military presence on the ground there…
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