- The car, the train, and the plane are the three means of transport used with attention to every detail.
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| Zelensky's 'mobile bunker' to reach the United States: maximum security, secrecy, and no surprises |
Zelensky's 'mobile bunker' to reach the United States: maximum security, secrecy, and no surprises
Being Volodimir Zelensky is a risky profession right now. The Ukrainian president does not want scares and under this maxim, his trip to the United States was prepared, where he is already. It is the first exit since the beginning of the Russian invasion. His team does not want to leave anything to chance and what they have done has been to turn everything that surrounds the leader into a mobile bunker oblivious to surprises and anything that could alter an agenda already surrounded by secrecy.
The Ukrainian president plans to hold a meeting with Biden and the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, in which, according to the communication spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby, they will address economic and military issues, as well as a hypothetical peace with Russia. And little else, despite the fact that he will also give a speech in Congress. Maximum security in all aspects.
Thus, on his journey to Washington, Zelenski used three means of transport. The car, left his residence in Kyiv, to the train station, where he got on the carriage to travel to Poland. He got off at the Przemysl station and got back in the car to go to the Rzeszow airport, also known for being an important reception center for aid to Ukraine. There, yes, he got on the so-called Air Force Two, of the US Armed Forces, to travel to Washington.
Zelensky's trip to Washington has been prepared under "strict secrecy" and with great concern to guarantee the safety of the European president, The New York Times reported. The newspaper cites as sources senior officials of the US administration who spoke on condition of anonymity about the "concern" in Washington to organize this visit.
Since last February 24, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Zelenski has remained in Kyiv and has not left the country, all this despite the offer of some countries for the president to take refuge in the face of Russian aggression. However, Ukraine's president has declined all offers, emphasizing that he, as his country's head of state, should remain through the war. So far, only the country's first lady has represented Ukraine abroad in person, while the president has done so through videoconferences.
Russia does not give deadlines
While Zelensky travels, Russia does not give deadlines. The president of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matviyenko, denied on Wednesday setting a specific calendar for the Russian "special military operation" in Ukraine, which has already exceeded 300 days. "The goals and objectives of the special military operation have been set. It will end when they are achieved," he said. According to her, "it is incorrect to speak of specific dates, because initially when the decision to start a special military operation was made, it did not meet any date or deadline." He also assured that the invasion "was the only possible way to protect the security" of Russia.
On the other hand, Putin will not deliver his speech on the state of the nation this year, to which he is obliged by the Constitution, as announced by the Government. "Before the New Year, the president, of course, will not deliver the speech. Now, due to a matter of time, his schedule is very tight," said Dmitri Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman. Putin, who the independent press accuses of wanting to avoid uncomfortable questions about defeats on the battlefield in Ukraine, had not canceled that address even during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
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