Joe Biden's surprise trip to Kyiv

This is how President Joe Biden’s “unprecedented” surprise trip to an active war zone unfolded …

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00:00President Joe Biden made an unprecedented surprise trip to Kiev, Ukraine, which is still an active

00:04war zone. So how did the president and his team make the covert trip happen? Brute can explain

00:09in less than 60 seconds. The trip first began in the middle of the night Sunday when Biden boarded

00:13a plane headed towards Europe. After briefly stopping in Germany to refuel, the president

00:18made his way to Poland, where he then got on a train for a 10-hour trip into Ukraine's capital

00:22of Kiev, ultimately arriving at 8 a.m. Biden was then escorted around Kiev for the next five hours

00:28and made stops around the city with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A White House

00:32official said the covert trip took months of secret planning and coordination between multiple

00:37agencies, with Biden only giving his final sign-off on Friday. And although Ukrainians

00:41and the American public were not made aware of Biden's trip, White House officials said Russia

00:45was notified hours prior. After Ukraine, Biden headed back to Poland to discuss the U.S.'s

00:50commitment to Ukrainian democracy from Russia.