The expression “Rail Force One”, which includes the term railway in English, had become popular hours earlier among Ukrainian Twitter users, who celebrated Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev yesterday, Monday, with an avalanche of memes and jokes.
“It was an honor and a privilege for me and for the entire Ukrzaliznytsia railway team (Ukrainian public train company) to manage this visit,” the head of the company, Alexander Kamyshin, wrote on the social network, acknowledging that ” It was complicated” managing the arrival in Kiev of the most important politician on the planet.
“Of 24 hours, President Biden spent 20 on the train —in both directions— and only 4 in Kiev,” Kamyshin revealed about the logistical process to take the US president to the Ukrainian capital, where you cannot travel by plane. since the full-scale invasion of Russia began almost a year ago.
The fact that Biden spent so much time in a means of transport that is not usually used by politicians of his level, Kamyshin added, forced the company to ensure that he received proper treatment, something that, in his opinion, they did.
“And this is how ‘Rail Force One’ was born,” added the director of the Ukrainian public company in his thread, which includes photographs of Biden inside the train.
The Ukrainian railway company has played an important role in this war, both in keeping the country connected amid Russian attacks and in bringing heads of state and government to Kiev, almost always from neighboring Poland. who have visited.