Biden To Visit Poland After Meetup With NATO Leaders

March 21, 2022 Ukraine, United States

ABC News reports:

President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his trip this week to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies, as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine.

Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland to meet with leaders there, press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday night.

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.

The New York Times reports:



One of the most potentially divisive issues at the NATO meeting will be a proposal from Poland to organize an international peacekeeping mission for Ukraine. While NATO has carried out such missions in Europe before, those were done after fighting eased.

While the United States provides weapons to Ukraine, Mr. Biden has resisted calls to support a no-fly zone over the country, fearing it could draw the United States closer to a direct confrontation with Russia. NATO and American officials have also said there are no plans to send troops to Ukraine.

Later Thursday, Mr. Biden will join a European Council summit and a G7 meeting called by Germany to discuss imposing more sanctions against President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

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