Biden: We are deciding to send a representative to Ukraine

“We will make that decision soon,” Biden told reporters as he prepared to travel to North Carolina.

An informed source said Wednesday that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin or Secretary of State Anthony Blinken may visit Ukraine, but Biden is unlikely to visit.

White House spokesman Jen Saki has previously said that we have no plans to visit Biden in Ukraine at the moment, and that it is more important than the US president’s visit to Ukraine to continue to send weapons and support the country.

Earlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelinsky in Kiev.

A spokesman for the British Prime Minister’s Office said Johnson had traveled to Ukraine to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people to meet with President Zelensky.

So far, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiski, Czech leader Petr Fiela, Slovenian Prime Minister Jan Jansa, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehmer and EU President Ursula von der Lahn have traveled to Kiev to meet with the Ukrainian President. Have.

Criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2022, recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in the Donbas region.

Three days later, on Thursday, February 24, 1400, Putin launched a so-called “special operation” against Ukraine, shifting tensions between Moscow and Kiev to a military confrontation. The war in Ukraine and the reactions to Russia’s action continue.