Good evening, President Biden is in Poland tonight after making a surprise in history

making journey to Kiev on this President's Day.

After months of secret planning and elaborate security preparations, the President of the

United States met with Ukraine's President just four days, where he was a year since Russian

forces invaded.

And with reminders of the continuing threat, quite literally sounding all around the two

leaders.

Many Americans, American presidents have made dramatic trips before Nixon to China, Kennedy

Reagan to the Berlin Wall and presidents have visited US troops in war zones, but never

like this.

This was the first trip ever by an American president into a war zone without the protection

of US troops on the ground or American war planes controlling the airspace overhead.

American air assets were active on Ukraine's border and Moscow was told about it in advance.

As for the president's own message here, some of what he had to say.

No, it was one year ago this week that we spoke on the telephone with the president.

It was very late in the night in Washington very early in the morning here in Kiev.

Russian planes were in the air and tanks were rolling across your border.

You told me that you could hear explosions in the background.

One year later, Kiev stands.

And Ukraine stands.

Democracy stands.

The American stands with you and the world stands with you.

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