US President Joe Biden, who visited the Ukraine-Polish border, compared the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 25th (local time) to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident in China.
President Biden, who visited Europe for the first time since the outbreak of the Ukrainian War, held a meeting with the US 82nd Airborne Unit dispatched to the Polish town of Seesup, 80 km from the Ukrainian border, and officials from relief organizations helping refugees.
President Biden praised the Ukrainians for their bravery and tenacity in fighting once morest Russia, comparing them to a 30-year-old woman standing in front of a tank with a rifle. “If you talk regarding what happened in Tiananmen Square, this is the square of what happened in Tiananmen Square,” he said.
On June 4, 1989, Chinese authorities opened fire on students, workers, and citizens demanding democratization in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square when martial law forces dispersed them with armored vehicles, killing or injuring thousands.
Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “frankly a war criminal” and “probably fits the legal definition of it.”
“You’re in the middle of a war between democracy and dictatorship,” he told U.S. soldiers. “What you’re doing is really important.”
After attending the NATO, G7, and European Union (EU) summits in Brussels the day before in Brussels the day before, President Biden arrived in Dzeshuv, near the border with Ukraine, to discuss Russia’s response.
Meanwhile, President Biden is scheduled to depart for Warsaw on the 26th to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda and to visit the Ukrainian refugee camp.
Poland, a member of the EU and NATO ally, provided financial and military support to Ukraine, including receiving 2.24 million Ukrainian refugees following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of last month.
There are 10,500 U.S. troops in Poland.
