President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
The United States is considering sending a senior official to Ukraine in the near future as a show of solidarity with the country amid its war with Russia, a person familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Wednesday.
The official would travel to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Since the war began, President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have visited neighboring countries, but no US official has publicly entered Ukraine.
The person familiar with the matter told the Times that security concerns made it highly unlikely that Biden or Harris would make the high-risk trip to Kyiv. Instead, the idea of sending a cabinet or senior military member who would need a smaller security team is being explored. Typically, when a senior US official visits a war zone, it is not disclosed until they arrive – and in the most sensitive cases, it is not disclosed until they have left the war zone.
Several leaders met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv this month, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Estonian President Alar Karis, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Latvian President Egils Levits.
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