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Put the president on a smaller 757. changing the callsign from air force one to special air mission 60. the plane took off from joint base andrews at 4:15 a.m. sunday morning stopping briefly in germany to refuel before turning off its transponder and flying to a polish airbase near the ukrainian border. as the president and a tiny group of aides made their way into ukraine on a heavily guarded gate car train, u.s. surveillance flights kept watch from polish airspace. he arrived in kyiv bearing gifts, a promise of another $450 million worth of military aid, including artillery ammunition, javelin anti-armor missiles, and surveillance radar systems. i thought it was critical that there would not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about u.s. support to ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports.
Biden’s surprise visit on Monday was the first time in modern history that a U.S. leader visited a war zone outside the protection of the U.S. military.