US President Joe Biden, from left, and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy outside St. Michael's Cathedral, Kyiv, February 20, 2023.
Washington – The United States informed the Russian side about President Joe Biden's visit to Kyiv a few hours before his departure. White House security adviser Jake Sullivan told Reuters. Biden spent about five hours in Kiev, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced further US military aid to the country attacked by Russia.
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Sullivan told reporters today after Biden's departure that the White House informed Russia about Biden's trip even before his departure from Washington for “deconfliction” reasons, apparently so that the US could avoid a clash with Russia in the event that Biden's visit to the country in the state of war was caused by a bad assessment of the situation, writes the AP agency. According to the media, Biden then traveled to Ukraine by train from neighboring Poland.
The Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote in a telegram today that Biden received security guarantees before his trip to Ukraine. However, he did not specify who provided them to the American president. “Biden, who received security guarantees in advance, finally went to Kiev. He promised many weapons and swore loyalty to the neo-Nazi regime until the grave,” Medvedev claimed. despite the fact that Ukraine is headed by a president of Jewish origin and the extreme right – judging by the results of the last elections – plays only a marginal role in Ukrainian politics.
Biden honored the memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kiev, met with US embassy and said that Ukraine will receive a new package of military aid worth 500 million dollars (over 11 billion crowns), its specific content will be announced by Washington on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Zelenskyy said that he and his American counterpart discussed long-range weapons and praised the visit as an extremely important show of support for all Ukrainians.
