The Biden administration refused to confirm the trip took place until the early morning hours of Monday — only when the U.S. team returned across the border in Poland.
The U.S. will provide Ukraine with $322 million in new aid, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday.In the quiet weekend morning hours Saturday, two of President Joe Biden's top advisers boarded their flights -- the start of a long journey shrouded in secrecy.
But the administration refused to confirm the troop took place until the early morning hours Monday -- only when the U.S. team returned across the border in Poland. Blinken also announced Biden would formally nominate Bridget Brink, a career diplomat currently serving as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, to serve as envoy in Kyiv. U.S. diplomats will eventually return to the capital too, Blinken said, as they start this week by making the journey across the border from Poland to Lviv on a daily basis.
"We certainly saw people on the streets in Kyiv -- evidence of that fact that the battle for Kyiv was won, and there is what looks from the surface at least to be normal life," he told reporters afterwards."But that's in stark contrast to what's going on in other parts of Ukraine -- in the south and the east -- where the Russian brutality is doing horrific things to people every single day.
When a U.S. delegation visited Zelenskyy last May -- the first meeting between Biden officials and a Ukrainian president already bruised by American politics -- Zelenskyy was"constantly energized, moving from one thing to another," the senior State Department official said.
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