US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 19U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a private video call with allies on Ukraine on Tuesday, the White House press office said. Biden's schedule, circulated by the press service of the White House. The conversation will begin at 9.45 (16.45 Moscow time), and at 11.40 (18.40 Moscow time), according to the schedule, Biden will go on a trip to New Hampshire, 800 kilometers from Washington. In the middle of Tuesday, Biden will deliver a speech as part of his infrastructure agenda, according to the president's schedule.The US will train the Ukrainian military in the handling of US howitzers The information about the video call on the Ukrainian agenda coincided with the publication in the US media of data that the administration intends to shift the focus to domestic politics from international ones in order to avoid criticism. “The president is planning more domestic travel and an increased role for domestic politics. But international events often interfere,” writes Politico. The White House is worried that voters will find the president absorbed in the international agenda more than the domestic one, the newspaper said. Efforts are being made to change the situation, so the White House is aware of the importance of voters' views on the economy in the context of the midterm congressional elections in November, two senior administration officials told the publication. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
