{"id":210687,"date":"2025-11-19T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=210687"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:28:58","slug":"senior-us-military-officials-secretly-visit-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/210687\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior US military officials secretly visit Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George have arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/18\/top-army-officials-set-for-drone-focused-visit-to-ukraine-00658328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reports, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for the high-ranking military officials&rsquo; trip is Washington&rsquo;s efforts to find ways to accelerate an end to the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The duo are slated to meet with Ukrainian military leaders, lawmakers and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has never visited Ukraine, making Driscoll and George the highest-ranking Pentagon officials to travel to Kyiv during the administration of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported earlier that the United States and Russia have been secretly working on a new plan to halt the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George have arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit, Politico reports, citing sources. One of the reasons for the high-ranking military officials&rsquo; trip is Washington&rsquo;s efforts to find ways to accelerate an end to the war with Russia. The duo are slated to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":210677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210688,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210687\/revisions\/210688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}