Joe Biden visited Ukraine six times in eight years while vice president
by Rob Crilly
| October 10, 2019 06:23 PM
When Joe Biden addressed the Ukrainian parliament just four days before he stood down as vice president, he managed to joke about the frequency of his visits.
“Mr. President,†he said to Petro Poroshenko, “I may have to call you once every couple weeks just to hear your voice.â€
The 24-hour visit in January 2017 was the sixth he had made in office; his fifth as the face of Barack Obama’s policy to Ukraine following Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Those visits are back in the spotlight as impeachment investigations rock Washington. Congressional committees are sifting through President Trump’s dealings with Poroshenko’s successor Volodymyr Zelensky while Republicans punch back with questions about Biden’s work in Kiev.
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