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Biden\u2019s Surreal and Secretive Journey Into a War Zone<\/em>, The New York Times, 2.20.23<\/p>\n

Today in the U.S. is the President’s Day holiday and today the president of the United States, Joe Biden, astounded the world and created history in a new way by secretly travelling to Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The story follows in the two front page stories in The New York Times and reports from CNN and BBC News:<\/p>\n

“Biden\u2019s Surreal and Secretive Journey Into a War Zone”<\/a><\/p>\n

By <\/span>Peter Baker<\/span> and Michael D. Shear, Feb. 20, 2023, The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n

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President Biden traveled covertly to the besieged Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, hoping to demonstrate American resolve to help defeat the Russian forces that invaded a year ago this week.<\/p>\n

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President Biden\u2019s visit with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv was the first trip by a modern president to a war zone not under the control of American forces.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Daniel Berehulak\/The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WASHINGTON \u2014 As the train rumbled across the Ukrainian countryside through a long night, the view outside the window left little to see, just the occasional streetlight or shadows of buildings in the distance. But neither could those watching the train go by see who was inside, nor would they likely have guessed had they stopped to wonder.<\/p>\n

Huddled aboard the anonymous train were President Biden and a skeleton team of advisers accompanied by armed and edgy Secret Service agents, embarking on a secret mission to visit Kyiv. As far as the world was concerned, Mr. Biden was back in Washington, home for the evening after a date night at an Italian restaurant.<\/p>\n

In fact, he was on a journey unlike any other taken by a modern American president.<\/p>\n

In an audacious move meant to demonstrate American resolve to help Ukraine defeat the Russian forces that invaded a year ago this week<\/a>, Mr. Biden traveled covertly to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and promise even more weapons for the country\u2019s defenders. The visit produced an indelible image of the two presidents striding to a memorial for fallen soldiers in broad daylight even as an air-raid siren blared<\/a>, a show of defiance of Moscow quickly beamed around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was critical that there not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about U.S. support for Ukraine in the war,\u201d Mr. Biden said during his five hours on the ground in Kyiv before leaving again. He was speaking, in effect, not just to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia but to fellow Americans back home doubting his decision to invest so deeply in Ukraine\u2019s war. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about freedom in Ukraine,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about freedom of democracy at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Never in Mr. Biden\u2019s lifetime had a president ventured into a war zone that was not under the control of American forces, much less on a relatively slow-moving locomotive that would take nine and a half hours to reach its destination. During that time, he was potentially exposed to circumstances beyond the control of the hypervigilant security phalanx that normally seeks to shield a commander in chief from every conceivable physical danger and minimize his time outside a hardened shelter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n