President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine Monday morning for top-level meetings with President Zelenskyy as the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion rapidly approaches.

 

“We did notify the Russians that President Biden would be traveling to Kyiv,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters Monday. “We did so some hours before his departure for de-confliction purposes.”

“This was not a celebration,” he added.

“Over the last year, the United States has built a coalition of nations from the Atlantic to the Pacific to help defend Ukraine with unprecedented military, economic, and humanitarian support – and that support will endure,” Biden said in a Monday statement.

This is a developing story.