U.S. President Joe Biden strolls after showing up on Marine One from a journey to Ohio at the White House in Washington, February 17, 2022.
Leah Millis|Reuters
WASHINGTON– President Joe Biden suddenly canceled intend on Sunday to go to his house in Delaware for the vacation following a four-hour conference of his nationwide security group to go over the Russian hazard to Ukraine.
The journey house was a last-minute addition to the president’s schedule, revealed on Sunday afternoon at 2: 41 p.m. A little over an hour later on, nevertheless, it was canceled.
It’s uncommon for a U.S. president’s travel prepares to alter this rapidly, particularly prepares that include leaving Washington.
According to the White House, the president “had a family-related issue that was going to take him to Wilmington, DE, tonight but he will no longer be going and will remain in Washington, DC tonight.”
Biden’s schedule and his interaction with his nationwide security group have actually handled a brand-new sense of seriousness this weekend after the president stated he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin had actually chosen to perform an attack on Ukraine “in the coming days.”
“We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days,” Biden stated Friday in an official address to the country, his 2nd in the previous week. “We believe that they will target Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people.”
Revealing info like this about a foe’s fight strategies is extremely uncommon, and Biden’s forecast sent out shockwaves all over the world. Russia presently has 190,000 soldiers released on Ukraine’s northern and eastern border– almost half of the country’s armed force.
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