The go to was organized in situations of strict secrecy.

Washington:

The USA gave a heads as much as Moscow “hours” forward of President Joe Biden’s “dangerous” shock journey to Kyiv on Monday to keep away from any probability of battle, a senior White Home aide stated.

“We did notify the Russians that President Biden will likely be touring to Kyiv. We did so some hours earlier than his departure for deconfliction functions,” Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan, who accompanied the president on the journey, advised reporters.

“Due to the delicate nature of these communications, I will not get into how they responded or what the exact nature of our message was,” he continued.

Biden arrived in Kyiv on Monday, making a rare first go to to the nation since Russian troops invaded on February 24, 2022.

The go to was organized in situations of strict secrecy.

Biden left Andrews Air Pressure Base within the early hours of Sunday. Nevertheless, White Home employees stated they can not but expose how Biden obtained to the embattled Ukrainian capital.

“We’re holding again on a few of these mode of transportation particulars and different particular logistical particulars till the journey is absolutely full,” communications director Kate Bedingfield stated.

Sullivan stated the journey “required a safety operational and logistical effort from professionals throughout the US authorities to take what was an inherently dangerous enterprise and make it a manageable stage of threat.”

“In fact, there was nonetheless threat and remains to be threat in an endeavor like this and President Biden felt that it was necessary to make this journey.”

Solely two journalists had been allowed to accompany the president.

After handing over their units, journalists had been made conscious of his presence on Air Pressure One simply quarter-hour earlier than the airplane took off.

It was the primary go to by a US president to Ukraine since 2008.

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