Perhaps the most intensely scrutinized person on the planet, President Joe Biden left the world’s media and the Washington rumor mill in complete darkness as he made his secret trip into wartime Kyiv.
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So with everything in place for what was already promising to be a hugely symbolic trip, Biden made a public show all weekend of relaxing. Flying has its own complications, given the daily air battles and rocket attacks in the skies over Ukraine. “We did notify the Russians that President Biden will be traveling to Kyiv. We did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said.
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