Russia-Ukraine Issue: US President to Travel Poland on Friday
New Delhi: The US President has added Poland as a new stop in his visit to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and the European allies. The Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine.
Press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday night said that “Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland on Friday to meet with leaders there,”
The United States and European governments see Moscow’s military aggression as a threat to their security and strategic interests.
Biden will travel on Friday to Warsaw for a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda. Biden will discuss how the US, along with its allies and partners, responding to “the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created,” Psaki said.
Poland is a crucial ally in the Ukraine crisis. It is hosting thousands of American troops and is taking in more people fleeing the war in Ukraine — more than 2 million — than any other nation in the midst of the largest European refugee crisis in decades.’
Biden and NATO have said repeatedly that while the U.S. and NATO will provide weapons and other defensive support to non-NATO member Ukraine, they are determined to avoid any escalation on behalf of Kyiv that risks a broader war with Russia.
(Vinayak)
