US President Joe Biden is expected in neighboring Poland on Tuesday following his visit to war-torn Ukraine. According to the White House, Biden is planning a meeting with President Andrzej Duda in the capital Warsaw and a speech in front of the Warsaw Royal Castle in the early evening. The trip comes just before the first anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine.
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Biden visits Poland on Tuesday
Biden arrived in Poland on Monday evening. The president crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk told the PAP news agency. According to the information, the US President arrived by train in the south-eastern Polish city of Przemysl near the border. In the evening he was to fly on with his government aircraft Air Force One from the airport in Rzeszow to Warsaw.
On Monday, Biden surprisingly traveled to the Ukrainian capital Kiev under the strictest security precautions. There he met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Biden promised Ukraine further support in the defense once morest the Russian war of aggression. It was Biden’s first visit to Ukraine since the war began.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Biden last visited neighboring Poland at the end of March 2022, around a month following the war began. Even then, Biden had given a well-received speech in front of the historic backdrop of Warsaw’s Royal Castle, in which he assured Ukraine of support and sharply attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin. This year, Biden’s appearance in Warsaw coincides with Kremlin chief Putin’s “state of the nation address”.
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