Editor’s Note: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden is scheduled to visit Kyiv and meet with President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman on Jan. 16, 2017, just days before Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. This story was originally published on Jan. 15, 2017.

U.S. President Barack Obama delegated the front-man role for American policy in Ukraine to his vice president, Joseph Biden, who will be making his fifth and final trip to Kyiv since the 2013-14 EuroMaidan Revolution ousted the corrupt fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. It is his sixth trip to Ukraine as vice president. He came once in 2009 when President Viktor Yushchenko was in power.