How US President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Ukraine was kept a secret
Appearing in a war zone under regular attack, White House officials describe Joe Biden'sThey say previous presidential trips to wartime Iraq and Afghanistan had the back up of a heavy US military presence.
"It was risky and should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that Joe Biden is a leader who takes commitment seriously," said White House communications director Kate Bedingfield.Mr Biden had been scheduled to fly out from the US to Warsaw on Monday evening, for a two-day trip. The final decision to make the trip to Kyiv was only taken on Friday, even though it had been planned for months with a handful of the presidents' top aides.
He said the US "did so for deconfliction purposes… I won't get into how they responded or what the precise nature of our message was, but I can confirm we provided that notice".President Biden then spent 10 hours on a train to get to Kyiv. He could have visited other locations inside Ukraine that would have been easier to get to, but he wanted to make the symbolic trip to Kyiv itself.
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