U.S. President Joe Biden walks after boarding Marine One from his trip to Ohio at the White House in Washington, February 17, 2022.
Leah Millis | Reuters
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden abruptly canceled plans on Sunday to return to his home in Delaware for the holiday after a four-hour meeting of his national security team to discuss the Russian threat to Ukraine.
The trip home is a last-minute addition to the president’s schedule, announced Sunday afternoon at 2:41pm. However, more than an hour later, it was cancelled.
It’s not unusual that the US president’s travel plans can change this so quickly, especially those involving leaving Washington.
According to the White House, the president “has a family matter that will bring him to Wilmington, DE, tonight but he will not be leaving and will remain in Washington, DC tonight.”
Biden’s schedule and his interactions with his national security team brought on a new sense of urgency this weekend after the president said he trusted the Russian president. Vladimir Putin decided to launch an attack on Ukraine “in the coming days. “
“We have reason to believe that Russian forces are planning and intending to attack Ukraine in the next week, in the coming days,” Biden said Friday in an official address to the nation. , for the second time in the past week. “We believe they will target the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people.”
The disclosure of such information about the enemy’s battle plans is highly unusual, and Biden’s prediction has sent shockwaves around the world. Russia currently has 190,000 troops deployed on Ukraine’s northern and eastern borders – almost half the country’s number.
This is a developing story, please check back for updates.
