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The President made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday, traveling in secrecy, including a 10-hour train trip from Poland. Meeting with President Zelensky, he announced an additional military aid package including artillery ammunition and said he visited just before the anniversary of the invasion to show the US is “here to stay.” During his remarks, he accused Russia of “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine, which indicates US support for prosecution of Russian officials in the International Criminal Court. (Crimes against humanity are defined in the 1998 Rome Statute as certain acts “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.”) US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called the trip “a historic visit unprecedented in modern times to have the president . . . visit the capital of a country at war where the US military doesn’t control the critical infrastructure,” unlike previous Presidential visits to Iraq and Afghanistan. The US informed Russia of the trip shortly before it occurs for “deconfliction purposes.”
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