Biden arrived in Poland after traveling over eight hours from Kyiv

The president of the United States, Joe Bidenarrived this Monday evening in Warsaw after a train journey of more than eight hours from kyiv to the border town of Industry and a flight in the Air Force One in the Polish capital.

Biden took the train at 1:10 p.m. local time from Kiev (11:10 a.m. GMT) and arrived at Przemyśl station, in southeastern Poland and near the border with Ukraine, at 8:45 p.m. local time (6:45 p.m. GMT) . ).

Later, the 80-year-old president boarded the presidential plane from Rzeszów airport (90 kilometers away) at 10:30 p.m. (20:30 GMT) and an hour later he landed in the Polish capitalwhere a delegation of American officials was waiting for him.

Once in Warsaw, where his official agenda in Poland begins this Tuesday, Biden He traveled in his official car, known as “The Beast”.

The White House had not revealed until now how Biden entered Ukraine and how he planned to leave. For safety reasons.

However, as the president was already outside Ukraine, the only journalist accompanying him, from the daily The Wall Street Journalhe was able to inform the rest of the reporters that Biden had traveled by train both to go to Kyiv and to move to Poland.

Preparations for the trip to Ukraine have been made in the midst of great secrecy and the visit was not disclosed until it was underway.

However, according to Washington, Russia was warned of the visit of Biden several hours earlier “in order to avoid a conflict”, according to national security adviser Jale Sullivan.

In Kyiv, Biden met with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenskyand announced An additional $500 million in military aid to Ukrainein a gesture of solidarity to mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion which falls on February 24.

“I think it is essential that there is no question of the support of the United States for Ukraine”, underlined the president.

The Ukrainian president said on social media that the visit of his American counterpart was “an extremely important sign of support for all Ukrainians”. “This conversation (with Biden) brings us closer to victory,” Zelensky said.

The ace Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv during Biden’s visitverified journalists from AFP.

This Tuesday, Biden is due to meet Polish President Andrzej Duda, and deliver a speech in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Poland, which shares a border of around 530 kilometers with Ukraine, has been characterized by its strong support for kyiv since the start of the war and is the country that has taken in the most Ukrainian refugees with 1.5 million.

(With information from AFP and EFE)

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