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BIDEN DECLARES ‘KYIV STANDS’ IN SURPRISE VISIT TO UKRAINE

By EVAN VUCCI, JOHN LEICESTER, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLERFebruary 21, 2023

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US President Joe Biden, left, walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
at St. Michaels Golden-Domed Cathedral during an unannounced visit, in Kyiv,
Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden swept unannounced into Ukraine on
Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of
Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and
unjust war” days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

“One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden declared after meeting Zelenskyy at
Mariinsky Palace. Jabbing his finger for emphasis on his podium, against a
backdrop of three flags from each country, he continued: “And Ukraine stands.
Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you, and the world stands with you.”

Biden spent more than five hours in the Ukrainian capital, consulting with
Zelenskyy on next steps, honoring the country’s fallen soldiers and seeing U.S.
embassy staff in the besieged country. Altogether he was on Ukrainian territory
for about 23 hours, traveling by train from and back to Poland.

The visit came at a crucial moment: Biden is trying to keep allies unified in
their support for Ukraine as the war is expected to intensify with spring
offensives. Zelenskyy is pressing allies to speed up delivery of promised weapon
systems and calling on the West to provide fighter jets — something that Biden
has declined to do.

The U.S. president got a taste of the terror that Ukrainians have lived with for
close to a year when air raids sirens howled just as he and Zelenskyy wrapped up
a visit to the gold-domed St. Michael’s Cathedral.

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Looking solemn, they continued unperturbed as they laid two wreaths and held a
moment of silence at the Wall of Remembrance honoring Ukrainian soldiers killed
since 2014, the year Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and
Russian-backed fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine.

The White House would not go into specifics, but national security adviser Jake
Sullivan said that it notified Moscow of Biden’s visit to Kyiv shortly before
his departure from Washington “for deconfliction purposes” in an effort to avoid
any miscalculation that could bring the two nuclear-armed nations into direct
conflict.

In Kyiv, Biden announced an additional half-billion dollars in U.S. assistance —
on top of the more than $50 billion already provided — for shells for howitzers,
anti-tank missiles, air surveillance radars and other aid but no new advanced
weaponry.

Ukraine has also been pushing for battlefield systems that would allow its
forces to strike Russian targets that have been moved back from frontline areas,
out of the range of HIMARS missiles that have already been delivered. Zelenskyy
said he and Biden spoke about “long-range weapons and the weapons that may still
be supplied to Ukraine even though it wasn’t supplied before.” But he did not
detail any new commitments.

“Our negotiations were very fruitful,” Zelenskyy added. Sullivan would not
detail any potential new capabilities for Ukraine, but said there was a ”good
discussion” of the subject.

Biden’s mission with his visit to Kyiv, which comes before a scheduled trip to
Warsaw, Poland, is to underscore that the United States is prepared to stick
with Ukraine “as long as it takes” to repel Russian forces even as public
opinion polling suggests that U.S. and allied support for providing weaponry and
direct economic assistance has started to soften. For Zelenskyy, the symbolism
of having the U.S. president stand side by side with him on Ukrainian land as
the anniversary nears is no small thing as he prods allies to provide more
advanced weaponry and step up delivery.

“I thought it was critical that there not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about
U.S. support for Ukraine in the war,” Biden said.

Biden’s trip was a brazen rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had
hoped his military would swiftly overrun Kyiv within days. Biden, a Democrat,
recalled speaking with Zelenskyy on the night of the invasion, saying, “That
dark night one year ago, the world was literally at the time bracing for the
fall of Kyiv. Perhaps even the end of Ukraine.”

A year later, the Ukrainian capital remains firmly in Ukrainian control.
Although a semblance of normalcy has returned to the city, regular air raid
sirens and frequent missile and killer-drone attacks against military and
civilian infrastructure across the country are a near-constant reminder that the
war is still raging. The bloodiest fighting is, for the moment, concentrated in
the country’s east, particularly around the city of Bakhmut, where Russian
offensives are underway.

At least six civilians have been killed and 17 more have been wounded in Ukraine
over the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s presidential office reported. In the eastern
Donetsk region, the Russian army was using aviation to strike cities on the
front line. A total of 15 cities and villages have been shelled over the past 24
hours, according to the region’s Ukrainian Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko. In the
northeastern Kharkiv region, cities near the border with Russia came under fire.
A missile strike hit Kupiansk, damaging a hospital, a plant and residential
buildings.

“The cost that Ukraine has had to bear has been extraordinarily high,” Biden
said. “And the sacrifices have been far too great.” But “Putin’s war of conquest
is failing.”

“He’s counting on us not sticking together,” Biden said. “He thought he could
outlast us. I don’t think he’s thinking that right now. God knows what he’s
thinking, but I don’t think he’s thinking that. But he’s just been plain wrong.
Plain wrong.”

Signing a guest book at the presidential palace, Biden praised Zelenskky and the
Ukrainian people, closing with “Slava Ukraini!” — ”Glory to Ukraine!”

The trip gave Biden an opportunity to get a firsthand look at the devastation
the Russian invasion has caused on Ukraine. Thousands of Ukrainian troops and
civilians have been killed, millions of refugees have fled the war, and Ukraine
has suffered tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure damage.

Biden, wearing a blue suit and at times his signature aviator sunglasses, told
Zelenskyy the U.S. will stand with him “for as long as it takes.” Zelenskyy
responded in English: “We’ll do it.”

The Ukrainian leader, wearing a black sweatshirt, as has become his wartime
habit, said through an interpreter that Biden’s visit “brings us closer to the
victory,” this year, he hoped. He expressed gratitude to Americans and “all
those who cherish freedom.”

It was rare for a U.S. president to travel to a conflict zone where the U.S. or
its allies did not have control over the airspace.

The U.S. military does not have a presence in Ukraine other than a small
detachment of Marines guarding the embassy in Kyiv, making Biden’s visit more
complicated than other recent visits by prior U.S. leaders to war zones.

While Biden was in Ukraine, U.S. surveillance planes, including E-3 Sentry
airborne radar and an electronic RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft, were keeping
watch over Kyiv from Polish airspace.

Speculation has been building for weeks that Biden would visit Ukraine around
the Feb. 24 anniversary of the Russian invasion. But the White House repeatedly
had said that no presidential trip to Ukraine was planned, even after the Poland
visit was announced.

Since early morning on Monday many main streets and central blocks in Kyiv were
cordoned off without any official explanation. Later people started sharing
videos of long motorcades of cars driving along the streets where the access was
restricted.

At the White House, planning for Biden’s visit to Kyiv was tightly held — with a
relatively small group of aides briefed on the plans — because of security
concerns. Sullivan said Biden gave final approval for the trip, which had been
in the works for months, on Friday during an Oval Office meeting at which he was
briefed on security plans for the visit.

The president traveled with an usually small entourage, with just a few senior
aides and two journalists, to maintain secrecy.

Asked by a reporter on Friday if Biden might include stops beyond Poland, White
House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby replied, “Right now, the
trip is going to be in Warsaw.” Moments later — and without prompting — Kirby
added, “I said ‘right now.’”

Biden quietly departed from Joint Base Andrews near Washington at 4:15 a.m. on
Sunday, stopping at Ramstein Air Base in Germany before making his way into
Ukraine on an overnight train from Poland. He arrived in Kyiv at 8 a.m. on
Monday. He departed after 1 p.m. by train back to Poland.

Until Monday, Biden’s failure to visit was making him something of a standout
among Ukraine’s partners in the West, some of whom have made frequent visits to
the Ukrainian capital. White House officials had previously cited security
concerns with keeping Biden from making the trip, and Sullivan said Monday that
the visit was only undertaken once officials believed they had managed the risk
to acceptable levels.

In June, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and
then Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi traveled together by night train to
Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Kyiv in
November shortly after taking office.

This is Biden’s first visit to a war zone as president. His recent predecessors,
Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, made surprise visits to
Afghanistan and Iraq during their presidencies to meet U.S. troops and those
countries’ leaders.

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Madhani and Miller reported from Washington.

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Follow the AP’s coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine at
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