White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined Monday to commit to a timeframe for reopening the US embassy in Kyiv after Russian troops retreated from the region of Ukraine’s capital.

“It’s in our interest to have a diplomatic presence on the ground, but that is an assessment made by the State Department, made through the prism of security considerations and sometimes a smaller presence that gets larger, but they are really the appropriate entity to speak to that,” Psaki said at her daily press briefing.

The press secretary, again responding to a question from Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, said that Biden has no plans to visit Ukraine — after the president said during a visit to Poland last month that he wanted to go to the war-torn country, but “they” wouldn’t let me.

“I’m not going to get into private conversations. What I will tell you is we’re not currently planning a trip by the president of the United States to Ukraine,” Psaki said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv on Saturday and toured the formerly besieged city with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“The most important thing the United States has done and continues to do is lead the entire global coalition in standing up against Russia and ensuring we are providing military security assistance [to Ukraine] and leading the world in a package of economic sanctions that has had a crippling impact on the Russian economy,” Psaki said.

Presidents sometimes blame subordinates for travel decisions, though the US commander-in-chief has wide latitude to determine where they can go. For example, in 2019, then-President Donald Trump walked into North Korea at the invitation of dictator Kim Jong Un. However, Trump has also said he wanted to join a mob of his supporters marching on the Capitol last year, “but they wouldn’t let me go,” an apparent reference to the Secret Service. Trump claimed he would have been able to quell the violence of the Capitol riot if he was there.

The US embassy in Kyiv said Feb. 14 — 10 days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine — that it would relocate to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. After the invasion began, operations were relocated to Poland.

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for clarification about where embassy operations are based now.

Within the past week, the Czech, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish embassies in Kyiv announced plans to reopen — as did the European Union’s diplomatic office.

CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins pressed Psaki on Monday for more details on the possible embassy reopening, but Psaki repeated, “I’d point you to the State Department if they have any more specifics they want to outline.”

Beginning in late March, Russian troops have pulled back from areas around Kyiv in an apparent bid to focus on securing gains in eastern Ukraine, including in the Donbas region and areas north of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 following a disputed referendum.