Joe Biden to visit Poland after NATO summit amid Russia-Ukraine war

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will journey to Poland on Friday, an indication of assist for the japanese flank of the NATO alliance, after a gathering of NATO leaders in Brussels on Thursday to coordinate a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In Warsaw, Biden will meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the White Home introduced Sunday. Poland has taken in additional than a million of the three million Ukrainians who’ve been displaced since Russia’s invasion started final month.

Biden will focus on with Duda how the U.S. and others are responding to the humanitarian and human rights disaster, in keeping with the White Home.

Poland has proposed the creation of a peacekeeping drive, however officers mentioned they have no idea if NATO is but prepared to take such provocative motion.

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Marek Magierowski, Poland’s ambassador to the US, instructed CNN’s “State of the Union: “It is a very preliminary idea.”

A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators visited a refugee heart in Poland on Saturday and met with officers from a number of nations to strengthen U.S. assist for offering humanitarian help and deadly help to Ukraine’s protection towards Russia’s invasion.

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Poland earlier this month, assembly with Polish officers and Ukrainian refugees. 

She arrived quickly after the Biden administration nixed Poland’s provide of offering MiG-29 fighter planes to a U.S. air base in Germany for the U.S. to then give the planes to Ukraine. The Pentagon mentioned the prospect of fighter jets managed by the US flying from a U.S.-NATO base into airspace that’s contested with Russia over Ukraine “raises severe considerations for your complete NATO alliance.”

Republicans, and a few Democratic lawmakers, have continued to name for the fighter jets to be despatched to Ukraine. However administration officers argue there are higher methods to assist that will not threat escalating the conflict.

Upfront of his journey to Europe, Biden will speak by cellphone Monday with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Britain. Biden can even focus on the Ukrainian disaster with U.S. enterprise leaders Monday.

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NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg mentioned Thursday’s assembly will present “yet one more platform to reveal our unity, our assist to Ukraine, but in addition our readiness to guard and defend all NATO allies.”

Requested on NBC’s “Meet The Press” if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would attend the assembly remotely, Stoltenberg mentioned the summit’s “actual format” hasn’t been set.

On Sunday, Zelenskyy accused Russia of conflict crimes over its siege of Mariupol, describing the assault on the town as “a terror that might be remembered for hundreds of years to return.”

In his nightly handle to the nation, Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine is fascinated about peace, and burdened that ongoing talks with Russia are “mandatory.”

Contributing: Bart Jansen and David Jackson, USA TODAY; The Related Press.