Biden will travel to Poland and visit the home of 2 million Ukrainian refugees
President Biden will stop in Poland during his visit to Europe this week amid urgent talks with NATO and European allies, the White House announced.
Biden will keep his initial itinerary by travelling to Brussels, Belgium, before heading to Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday night.
Poland has been directly impacted by the Ukraine-Russia War, taking in over two million of Ukraine's three million refugees. Poland also houses U.S. troops.
In Warsaw, Biden will meet with President Andrzej Duda to discuss how the U.S. and its allies can help "the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created," Psaki said.
Poland has repeatedly asked NATO countries to be more active in aiding against the invading Russian forces, even going as far as to propose a plan to the U.S. that would provide MiG fighter jets to Ukraine via a NATO airbase.
The Pentagon rejected the plan, saying the MiG transfer would pose a "high risk" in potentially escalating the Ukrainian-Russian war on an international level. Biden’s Europe trip includes a summit on Thursday with NATO leaders, who will seek to use their allied strength to bolster international defenses and send a message of deterrence to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The summit will show NATO’s "support to Ukraine, but also our readiness to protect and defend all NATO allies," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told CBS’ "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
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