President Joe Biden has added a visit in Poland to his travel to Europe this week for urgent discussions with NATO and European partners, as Russian soldiers focus their fire on cities and trapped populations in Ukraine’s almost month-long incursion.
Biden will fly to Brussels first, then to Poland to meet with officials there, said to press secretary Jen Psaki in a statement issued late Sunday night.
In the Ukraine situation, Poland is a critical ally. It is hosting thousands of American soldiers and has taken in more refugees fleeing the Ukraine war — more than 2 million — than any other country in the middle of Europe’s greatest refugee crisis in decades.
Biden will go to Warsaw on Saturday for a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda. According to Psaki, Biden will highlight how the United States, together with its friends and partners, are reacting to “the humanitarian and human rights disaster that Russia’s unjustifiable and unprovoked attack on Ukraine has caused.”