{"id":1438025,"date":"2022-04-14T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438025"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:15:45","slug":"biden-says-admin-is-deciding-now-on-sending-senior-us-official-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-admin-is-deciding-now-on-sending-senior-us-official-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says Admin Is Deciding \u2018Now\u2019 On Sending Senior US Official To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-admin-is-deciding-now-on-sending-senior-us-official-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden said Thursday that the administration is in the midst of deciding whether to send a senior U.S. official to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s comments, made on a tarmac ahead of his trip to North Carolina, confirm earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/13\/us-visit-zelenskyy-kyiv-00025050\">reports<\/a> suggesting the administration has been discussing sending a high-level U.S. official to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/04\/joe-biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-vladimir-putin\/\">Kyiv<\/a>, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re making that decision now,\u201d Biden confirmed when pressed on the news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reporter: \u201cWill you send senior officials to Ukraine?\u201d<br \/>Biden: \u201cWe\u2019re making that decision now.\u201d<br \/>Reporter: \u201cWho would you send?\u201d<br \/>Biden: \u201cAre you ready to go?\u201d<br \/>Reporter: \u201cAre you?\u201d<br \/>Biden: \u201cYeah.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZovnGXZ58\">pic.twitter.com\/JZovnGXZ58<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1514641894327861248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The debate comes amid <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/joe-biden-says-trying-meet-trevor-reed-parents-russia-jail\/\">Russia\u2019s<\/a> continued invasion of Ukraine \u2014 and follows trips to Ukraine by multiple high-level Western leaders.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to the city last week and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen also visited Ukraine recently.<\/p>\n<p>Biden himself is not likely to make the trip \u2014 should it occur \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/13\/us-visit-zelenskyy-kyiv-00025050\">according<\/a> to Politico, which cited two U.S. officials. More likely candidates include \u201ca Cabinet member like Secretary of State Antony Blinken or Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Biden quipped that he was ready to go during the brief exchange with reporters on the tarmac Thursday. When asked who the president \u201cwould send,\u201d Biden responded by asking a reporter if they were \u201cready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you?\u201d the reporter replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Biden answered.<\/p>\n<p>Sending a senior U.S. official to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-committing-genocide-ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> would be largely symbolic and would intend to demonstrate the administration\u2019s commitment to helping Ukraine as Russia continues to invade, Politico reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/26\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-cannot-remain-in-power\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Declares Putin \u2018Cannot Remain In Power,\u2019 White House Quickly Walks It Back)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The possibility coincides with Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/13\/joe-biden-800-million-dollars-military-aid-ukraine-russia\/\">approving<\/a> $800 million more in new military assistance for Ukraine on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Thursday that the administration is in the midst of deciding whether to send a senior U.S. official to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.The president\u2019s comments, made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}