President Joe Biden left Ukraine on Monday evening in the same way that he arrived: With a 10-hour train journey from Kyiv to Poland.
Relieved officials were able to tell a reporter traveling with the president that they could finally announce his departure from the war-torn country at about 9:30pm local time.
It marked the end of a tense day inside a war-torn country, with no U.S. military base and where friendly forces did not even have control of the