Yep. Moscow knew in advance about Biden's trip

When I was watching and writing about Joe Biden’s visit to Kyiv this morning, I brought up the potential dangers involved with such a trip. The White House was busy for much of the day touting the “historic” nature of the visit, being the first time that a sitting President had traveled into a war zone where the United States military did not control all of the infrastructure and security.

And missiles had indeed been falling around the capital region. But at the risk of committing one of the prime sins of journalism, I’m going to quote myself (again), specifically with one possibility I suggested, even if it seemed unlikely. I said:

“Of course, it’s possible that the White House went through back channels and notified the Kremlin that this would have been a bad time to fire any missiles into the capital city because “bad things might happen” if they were to inadvertently take out the American president.”

Well, it didn’t surface until later in the afternoon, but it turns out that’s exactly what happened. According to national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Moscow was informed “hours” before Biden even left on the trip. We’re not being given any details of who called whom or what was said, but Moscow was in the loop. (The Guardian)