to fly out of washington, d.c. until the 6:00 p.m. tonight. instead, they very quietly gathered a press pool and left yesterday about 4:15. the president appeared in kyiv, not on his original itinerary. we were told he was just coming to poland to commemorate the one year anniversary of the russian invasion instead he droons into an active war zone. the new york times is reporting that he took an hour s long train ride from poland into the ukrainian capital that is besieged by the russians right now and while there he announced an extra half a billion dollars in new u.s. security assistance. listen. that announcement includes artillery ammunition for himars and howitzers, nor javelins, raiders, they will protect the people from aerial bombardments. he rattled off a lot of different kinds of assistance. it is all equipment that the u.s. has given ukraine so far. ukrainians van v. been asking for f-16s that s not on the list of things the president gave as half a billion do
steve: fox news alert. if you are just waking up. president biden made a surprise visit to ukraine today and met with president zelenskyy there in kyiv earlier today. both leaders talked about continuing a united front saying that russia has not succeeded in its mission to break ukraine. putin s war of conquest is failing. russia s military has lost half its territory it once occupied. young, talented russians are freeing by the tens of thousands, not wanting to come back to russia. steve: our president s visit comes just four days before the one year mark of russia s invasion of ukraine. steve: more top of the hour. brian? brian: it is presi presidenty so let s talk about this a new fox nation special delving into
griff griff still playing out tape from this visit earlier. president biden with zelenskyy going around parts of the city and, of course, standing next to zelenskyy making those statements. it was quite a morning. ashley, it was great to be with you. ashley: so great jug especially on day like this when you have been to ukraine. obviously our coverage with fox & friends is going to continue right now. have a good monday. brian: all right. here we go almost to a year to the day when it began, guess what? we begin with this. president biden making a surprise visit to kyiv this morning. meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy right now. lisa: biden and zelenskyy both giving remarks a year of the deadly invasion. steve: i know it s 1:00 there in kyiv and poland as well. this was a big surprise, right? a huge surprise. president biden wasn t scheduled
steve harrigan. with the very latest. he is in kyiv. steve, this was a surprise this morning and for security reasons, we don t know exactly where the president is right now. the video we are seeing has been shipped to us by a taped delay so we would imagine he is either still on the ground about to leave or he could actually be back on a train, right? that s right, steve there was some speculation. we knew he was going to poland. would he take the security risk for a major symbolic move by coming to the heart of kyiv, a city that is still on many days under attack? gets hit by rocket. we try and pull that off? i can tell you from this vantage point in the hotel we could see down there at saint michaels monastery he did. he was walking out with president zelenskyy of ukraine. they came out and laid a wreath at the memorial for soldiers who have been killed in this war. they also met at the presidential palace before that
lisa: what s it going to take to do that. brian: we are doing it. steve: these are all great questions. talk about the analysis of how it is going to impact. but let s get back to what we know for sure. if you are just waking up. president biden made a surprise visit to ukraine we have half billion dollars more stuff the united states will be funneling. although as peter doocy reported a moment ago, sounds like a reporter asked joe biden if there would be more stuff and he said maybe, he would have an announcement later. lieutenant general richard newton retired air force was on fox & friends in ukraine on presidents day. this is extraordinary it. also could be in my view game-changing here to get the strategic communication message not only to the american people