Biden’s visit to Ukraine was cloaked in secrecy, with only top aides part of the planning process
Air raid sirens may be blaring but Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine was kept as quiet as a mouse.
The president making his first visit to Kyiv, as Ukraine prepares to mark its second year of conflict.
He becomes the first U.S. commander in chief to visit the war-torn nation in 15 years.
The visit, cloaked in secrecy and dipped with historical significance, was only known to a small number of the president’s most senior aides.
Officials seeking to shoot down any possibility of Biden’s arrival, keeping it a top secret right up until the very moment he was seen striding out of St Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv.
Biden granting the green light to visit the war zone inside the Oval Office on Friday morning.
It was a mission like no other, sending the most powerful man in America to the frontline of a warzone, where the U.S. has no control over the air space.
Reporters given no warning of Biden’s secret visit, his official White House schedule showing a 7pm departure for Poland on Monday, instead.
Senior White House officials denying plans the President was visiting Ukraine, even after Air Force One was in the skies.
On board, the president, some senior advisors, a reporter and photographer on their way to Poland.
It was the same place, where Biden was denied a visit to Ukraine last year.
This time was different, Biden and his team boarding a 10 hour train journey to Kyiv.
Biden joining a parade of allies making the same journey to Ukraine, since Russia launched a full-scale offensive this time last year.
U.S. intelligence suggesting 40-thousand civilians have lost their lives, along with hundreds of thousands of personnel.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urging for more military support from NATO allies.
Showing Biden’s visit is one small step of hope in an otherwise brutal conflict. #trending #featured
