{"id":14156,"date":"2023-02-20T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14156"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:34:48","slug":"biden-makes-unannounced-trip-to-kyiv-ahead-of-wars-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/biden-makes-unannounced-trip-to-kyiv-ahead-of-wars-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden makes unannounced trip to Kyiv ahead of war&#8217;s anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biden makes unannounced trip to Kyiv ahead of war&#8217;s anniversary. US <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">President Joe Biden<\/a> announced new military aid for Ukraine during an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital on Monday, showing solidarity with Kyiv days before the first anniversary of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Air raid sirens blared across the Ukrainian capital as Biden visited Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but there were no reports of Russian missiles or air strikes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyiv. St. Michael Cathedral. Air-Raid Sirens. A Truly Historic Visit of US President Joe Biden to Ukraine As Russia Continues its War of Aggression. It Will Go Down in History as an Epochal Moment. Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zkyOit5H05\">https:\/\/t.co\/zkyOit5H05<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrii Melnyk (@MelnykAndrij) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelnykAndrij\/status\/1627638537234354176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biden said Washington would stand with Ukraine as long as it takes. The United States has been by far the largest supplier of military assistance to help Ukraine repel better-equipped Russian invaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your visit is an extremely important sign of support for all Ukrainians,&#8221; Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/biden-administration-says-saudi-prince-has-immunity-in-khashoggi-killing-lawsuit.html\">Biden administration says Saudi prince has immunity in Khashoggi killing lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden said Washington would provide Kyiv with a new military aid package worth $500 million that would be announced on Tuesday. He said it would include more ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech, Biden commended Ukraine&#8217;s courage during the war and noted that he had visited Kyiv six times when he had earlier served as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew I would be back,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The air raid sirens wailed while Zelenskiy and Biden were inside the St Michael&#8217;s Golden-Domed Cathedral on a square in central Kyiv where burnt-out Russian tanks have been placed.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is preparing for what it expects to be a major new Russian offensive that some military analysts say is already underway.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s trip fell on the day that Ukraine marks the deaths of more than 100 people \u2014 now known as the Heavenly Hundred \u2014 at anti-government protests that eventually toppled a Moscow-backed president in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden makes unannounced trip to Kyiv ahead of war&#8217;s anniversary. US President Joe Biden announced new military aid for Ukraine during an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital on Monday, showing solidarity with Kyiv days before the first anniversary of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Air raid sirens blared across the Ukrainian capital as Biden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4141,8354,2547,636,181],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-biden","tag-kyiv","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}