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Months of secret planning and the president’s persistence: How Biden finally got to Kyiv

After months of coordination, the president gave the final go-ahead Friday less than 48 hours before his departure to Ukraine.

Hours before Biden’s arrival in Ukraine, U.S. officials informed Russia of the president’s travel, Sullivan said, “for deconfliction purposes,” an effort to avoid any kind of inadvertent escalation that could have brought the two nations into direct military conflict.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/20/joe-biden-secret-kyviv-trip-00083618