Expert called airstrike in Kiev on day of Biden’s visit staged

Bezpalko: Zelenskyy raised alarm the day Biden arrived in KievThe airstrike warning that was announced in Kiev during the visit of US President Joe Biden is a set-up aimed at those who oppose military assistance to Ukraine, said in a comment RIA News political scientist Bogdan Bezpalko.Biden is now in the Ukrainian capital for an official visit. He has already met his colleague Volodymyr Zelenskyy . It took place in the Mikhailovsky Cathedral. The Ukrainian leader later confirmed Biden’s visit. On the day of his arrival, an air raid alarm began sounding across Ukraine and the Ukrainian press began publishing a video of the US president marching to the sound of sirens.Bezpalko believes it was a set-up that senior officials are aware of. Thus, the Ukrainian authorities are trying to impress the townspeople who oppose military support for Kiev. The media, in turn, hammer this information into the heads of their readers.Biden and everyone around him understand that the airstrike turned out to be a fake. A similar situation occurred when the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, came to visit.Zelenskyy wants to show foreign guests how unhappy Ukrainians really are and how mean and arrogant Russians are, the political scientist concluded.Earlier, Michael Kofman, a researcher at the Center for a New American Security, said that the Russian army had launched an offensive in Donbass.