Biden arrives in Poland on trip to show support for Ukraine after announcing a half-billion dollars in new assistance during surprise stop in Kyiv. Follow live updates.
Biden's historic and risky trip to Kyiv took months of planning and days of secrecyPresident Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attend a press conference in Kyiv on February 20. was the work of months of planning by only a small handful of his senior-most aides, who recognized long ago the symbolic importance of visiting the Ukrainian capital a year after Russia tried to capture it.
That was in part due to the fluid nature of the trip itself. Even as the small circle of White House officials looped in on the planning grew confident it was an achievable undertaking, the realities of sending a president into a war zone where the US had no control over the air space were daunting. Biden landed in Rzeszow, the Polish town where he’d stopped in March of last year to visit US troops deployed near the Ukrainian border and humanitarian efforts supporting Ukrainian refugees. During that visit 11 months ago, he alluded to what became a long-running desire to extend his journey just a little further into Ukraine.
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