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Biden set for latest symbolic clash with Putin after surprise Ukraine trip (CNN)

The last time President Joe Biden spoke from the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Poland, the content of his 27-minute speech was mostly obscured by what he ...

“I do have to say that there is a concern, both in Poland and in Ukraine, about the staying power of the US beyond this administration. He and his aides have sought to downplay the prospect Republicans might sharply reduce American aid to Ukraine, noting GOP leaders are largely aligned in their support. “I mean, it’s really whether time is on the side of Russia, who is losing but has a lot of resources to deplete us in the West. It has caused convulsions in the global economy and created political problems at home while still providing Biden an opening to demonstrate his oft-recited claim that “America is back.” Instead, the war has become what NATO’s chief Jens Stoltenberg described last week as a “grinding war of attrition” without a discernible end. In the US, some conservative Republicans have balked at providing any more aid to Ukraine, though the party’s leaders appear unwavering in their support. “The fact is that we are fighting with time, right?” Baranowski said. Despite humiliating setbacks for his military and an apparent power struggle between the mercenary Wagner Group and the Russian defense ministry, Russia has recently made gains in the east. From the Warsaw castle, Biden intends to recommit to supporting Ukraine, even as the costs mount and public support appears to wane. In meetings with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and other eastern European allies, he’ll reiterate his commitment to those countries’ security. There are currently no serious efforts at negotiating an end to the fighting. On Tuesday, each will again engage in a remote rhetorical contest, delivering important speeches to mark one year since Russia launched its invasion.

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U.S. will remain with Ukraine for 'as long as it takes,' Biden says on ... (CBC.ca)

U.S. President Joe Biden has made an unannounced trip to Kyiv ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

Speculation has been building for weeks that Biden would pay a visit to Ukraine around the anniversary of the Russian invasion. "The cost that Ukraine has had to bear has been extraordinarily high," Biden said. 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. The U.S. The visit also gave Biden an opportunity to get a first-hand look at some of the devastation the Russian invasion has caused. Signing a guest book at the presidential palace, Biden praised Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people, closing with "Slava Ukraini!" Biden's mission with his visit to Kyiv — and then Warsaw — is to underscore that the U.S. Zelenskyy is pressing allies to speed up delivery of pledged weapon systems and is calling on the West to deliver fighter jets to Ukraine — something that Biden to date has declined to do. Biden announced the additional U.S. and European allies to provide more advanced weaponry and to step up the pace of delivery. 24 invasion nears is no small thing as he prods the U.S. Biden delivered remarks and met with Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv to announce an additional half-billion dollars in U.S.

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Joe Biden en visite surprise à Kyïv (TVA Nouvelles)

Joe Biden a quant à lui martelé que « la guerre de conquête » du président russe Vladimir Poutine était « en train d'échouer ». « Poutine a cru que l'Ukraine ...

Le chef de l’État ukrainien a souligné avoir discuté avec M. Joe Biden a quant à lui martelé que « la guerre de conquête » du président russe Vladimir Poutine était « en train d’échouer ». Le chef de l’État ukrainien y a vu un « signe extrêmement important de soutien », relevant que les deux dirigeants voulaient discuter de « comment gagner (la guerre dès) cette année ». L’Ukraine a un besoin crucial de munitions de longue portée et de chars pour s’opposer à une nouvelle offensive russe et pour reprendre les territoires occupés par Moscou dans l’est et le sud de son territoire. « Le président Biden et moi-même, nous avons parlé aujourd’hui de tout ce que nous devons faire afin remporter ensemble cette année une victoire dans cette guerre lancée par la Russie », a déclaré dans son adresse quotidienne le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky à l’issue de la visite. Le président américain Joe Biden est arrivé en train lundi soir à la gare de Przemysl, dans le sud-est de la Pologne, en provenance d’Ukraine, avant de prendre un avion pour Varsovie.

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Here's how Biden was able to sneak into Ukraine without anyone ... (CTV News)

U.S. President Joe Biden's motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president ...

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Biden's Surprise Visit to Kyiv Began With Saturday Date Night - BNN ... (BNN)

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden did little to tip his hand about his unannounced visit to Kyiv, heading to church on Saturday afternoon and then taking ...

“It’s good to be back in Kyiv,” the president said as he stepped off the train. Biden arrived at Mariinsky Palace in a white Toyota SUV instead of the usual presidential motorcade vehicles. Meanwhile, in Kyiv, a few reporters were being told late on Sunday night to show up at the Hyatt early the next morning. Washington time) wearing a blue and yellow striped tie, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The two men conferred in private for about 30 minutes. The pair was called into the office of White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield on Friday and were sworn to secrecy about the trip. One year later, the evidence is right here in this room. They were told they would receiving an email with the subject line, “Arrival instructions for the golf tourney,” with details of their departure. The war is at a pivotal stage, with a weariness setting in about the likelihood of a prolonged conflict that could put pressure on Ukraine to enter peace talks. This time they attended Mass on the campus of Georgetown University. Typically he and First Lady Jill Biden go back to their home in Delaware. “For deconfliction purposes” the Kremlin was notified “some hours before” Biden’s departure, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters.

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Comment Biden s'est rendu à Kyïv? (Le Journal de Montréal)

La visite surprise du président américain Joe Biden à Kyïv avait commencé près de 24 heures auparavant.

La première étape de ce périple a été un vol d’environ sept heures entre Washington et la base militaire américaine de Ramstein, en Allemagne, où l’appareil s’est posé pour faire le plein de carburant. Le train, qui emprunte l’itinéraire par lequel ont été acheminées des quantités astronomiques d’aide vers l’Ukraine, mais aussi, dans l’autre sens, des millions de femmes et enfants ukrainiens fuyant le conflit. Le président américain est sans nul doute l’une des personnes les plus scrutées de la planète. Les journalistes qui voyagent avec M. Détail révélateur de ce voyage tenu secret : les volets de chaque hublot avaient été baissés. Cet avion, une version plus petite qu’Air Force 1 à bord duquel voyagent généralement les présidents américains, était garé à bonne distance de l’endroit où M.

Visite inopinée du président des États-Unis Joe Biden en Ukraine ... (L'Avenir et des Rivières - Farnham)

Aux côtés de son homologue ukrainien, M. Biden a rappelé les craintes, il y a près d'un an, que les forces russes ne prennent rapidement la capitale ukrainienne ...

M. Avec cette visite, M. Il s’agit de la première visite de Joe Biden dans une zone de guerre en tant que président. L’air solennel, ils sont restés imperturbables en déposant deux couronnes de fleurs et en observant un moment de silence au Mur du Souvenir en l’honneur des soldats ukrainiens tués depuis 2014. Zelensky a déclaré que lui et M. À Kyiv, le président Biden a annoncé un demi-milliard $ US supplémentaires d’aide américaine – en plus des plus de 50 milliards $US – déjà fournis.

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Biden à Kiev, Poutine à Moscou: la confrontation de «deux ... (Le Temps)

La presse commente le voyage du président américain à Kiev, perçu comme un défi à son homologue russe.

«Le signal envoyé par Biden à Moscou ne pourrait pas être plus impressionnant», L’Ukraine ne fait pas partie de la zone d’influence russe, comme vous le prétendez toujours.» La visite de Joe Biden à Kiev ce lundi a été vue par la presse occidentale comme une nouvelle étape dans la confrontation entre le président américain et son homologue russe Vladimir Poutine.

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Biden visits Zelensky in Kyiv and says Putin 'dead wrong' on Ukraine ... (BBC News)

He met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the pair visited a memorial to soldiers who have died in the nine years since Russia annexed Crimea and its ...

"I appreciate his courage, that he took on this challenge and came to show the support of the American nation." In a scene that added drama to the most high-profile visit to Ukraine since the war began, air raid sirens wailed while President Biden and Mr Zelensky were in St Michael's Cathedral in central Kyiv. Mr Zelensky has repeatedly called for F-16 fighter jets, something the is being decided," he said. "It is now and in Ukraine that the fate of the world order, which is based on rules, on humanity... The US will back Ukraine in its fight against Russia for "as long as it takes", US President Joe Biden has said on an unannounced visit to Kyiv.

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Inside Biden's Surreal and Secretive Journey to Ukraine (The New York Times)

President Biden traveled covertly to the besieged Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, hoping to demonstrate American resolve to help defeat the Russian forces that ...

He read a briefing memo on the history of Kyiv back to its founding and reflected on his history with the city. On a sunny day with blue skies and a brisk chill in the air, Mr. On the long meandering train ride back to Poland, the senior official said the president issued a series of directions on military, economic and diplomatic areas to help Ukraine. Biden crossed the border into Ukraine, his office back in Washington issued a public schedule falsely stating that the president was still in the nation’s capital and not planning to leave for Europe until Monday evening. Biden was put in a motorcade with roughly 20 cars and driven without sirens for about an hour along a mostly empty highway to the small city of Przemyśl and taken to the train station where many thousands of refugees have arrived from Ukraine over the past year. The president spent the ride recalling his previous trips to Kyiv, including a speech to the Ukrainian Parliament and his remarks on his final trip in 2017. In this case, the White House decided to put it on the front end in hopes of keeping the secret. The president played his part in the ruse. They were taken not to the usual blue and white Boeing 747 designated as Air Force One when the president is on board but to an Air Force C-32, more typically used for domestic trips to airports with shorter runways. “Of course there was still risk, and is still risk, in an endeavor like this,” Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser, told reporters by phone from the train as it departed Kyiv for the return trip to Poland. Biden’s 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. As far as the world was concerned, Mr.

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En visite surprise à Kiev, Biden promet plus d'aide militaire (Le Soleil)

Joe Biden a effectué une visite surprise à Kiev lundi, promettant de nouveaux armements et un soutien «indéfectible» à son allié ukrainien, avant de se ...

Le train, qui emprunte l’itinéraire par lequel ont été acheminés des quantités astronomiques d’aide vers l’Ukraine mais aussi, dans l’autre sens, des millions de femmes et enfants ukrainiens fuyant le conflit. La première étape de ce périple a été un vol d’environ sept heures entre Washington et la base militaire américaine de Ramstein, en Allemagne, où l’appareil s’est posé pour faire le plein de carburant. Le président dit être passionné par les trains. Le président américain est sans nul doute l’une des personnes les plus scrutées de la planète. Il était 21h15 en Pologne quand le convoi s’est arrêté devant un train qui comptait huit wagons. Les journalistes qui voyagent avec M. Biden à Kiev, soit environ 24 heures plus tard. Durant ces longues heures, les deux journalistes n’ont pas vu M. Cet avion, une version plus petite qu’Air Force 1 à bord duquel voyagent généralement les présidents américains, était garé à bonne distance de l’endroit où M. Détail révélateur de ce voyage tenu secret : les volets de chaque hublot avaient été baissés. Le chef de l’État ukrainien a souligné avoir discuté avec M. Joe Biden a quant à lui martelé que «la guerre de conquête» du président russe Vladimir Poutine était «en train d’échouer».

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Ukraine Latest: Biden to Meet With Polish President in Warsaw ... (BNN)

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his first state-of-the-nation speech in nearly two years in Moscow later in the day. The Kremlin has kept plans for the ...

The US gave about €44 billion in military aid since January 2022, according to the institute’s latest Ukraine Support Tracker, far outstripping commitments from other countries. Wang is expected to arrive in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon, Tass reported. “China always says that one should respect borders so if that’s the starting point for the peace plan then it could work,” the EU’s Frans Timmermans said in an interview with Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio. The European Union follows with commitments of about €55 billion. Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his first state-of-the-nation speech in nearly two years in Moscow later in the day. Russia carried out six missile attacks and 28 air strikes aimed at civilian infrastructure of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and fired 86 salvos from rocket launchers, it said.

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Biden, after trip to Ukraine, to meet NATO allies in Poland (Reuters)

President Joe Biden, fresh from a visit to Kyiv, was set to reaffirm to U.S. allies on Tuesday that the United States is squarely behind Ukraine and ...

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Why it took a year to get Biden to Kyiv (Politico)

President Joe Biden had been eager to make the trip to Ukraine for a while. “He wanted to go last year” but it was simply “a matter of making it possible ...

He heard that presentation, he was satisfied that the risk was manageable, and he ultimately made the determination.” For security reasons, “only a handful of people in each department were involved,” said Jonathan Finer, the deputy national security adviser and, as a second U.S. In Kyiv, reports about a possible visit by the American president ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion began circulating earlier in the day. Only two reporters traveled with Biden and both were required to give up their phones for the duration of the journey, unable to send colleagues any information or report on the trip until Biden had reached Kyiv. Sullivan declined to offer more details about the nature of the conversation or Moscow’s response. From there, Biden headed to the train station and quickly boarded a heavily-secured eight-car train with its windows drawn for the overnight journey to Kyiv. Biden’s long-anticipated travel to the country’s frazzled capital provided more than just a photo-op, but a chance to talk with Zelenskyy about a conflict with no end in sight and how much more the West can do to hasten its conclusion — and ensure it takes place on Ukraine’s terms. officials described Biden’s visit to the active war zone as “unprecedented,” citing the absence of any U.S. “He was excited about making the trip.” “They will not let me, understandably, I guess, cross the border and take a look at what’s going on in Ukraine.” “Part of my disappointment is that I can’t see it firsthand like I have in other places,” he said during a briefing on refugees. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details.

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Live updates: Putin gives anti-West speech; Biden visits Poland after ... (The Washington Post)

President Vladimir Putin, under pressure over his long and halting offensive in Ukraine, is addressing Russia's parliament to tout the war.

EST Biden will meet Polish President Andrzej Duda and give a speech to mark the Feb.

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