U.S. President Joe Biden visited the Polish capital Warsaw on the 26th (local time) and met with Polish President Andrzej Duda following meeting with a family of refugees fleeing Russian invasion in Ukraine, which borders the border just east of Poland.
▶ According to foreign media reports such as CNN and French AFP, President Biden met with a woman and his daughter.
“My husband and son are fighting Russia in Ukraine,” the woman told Biden. President Biden said, “It’s terrifying,” comforting her woman.
“Ukrainian mothers are ready to strangle Russian President Vladimir Putin with their bare hands,” the woman said.
When asked by a Ukrainian refugee, “What do you think of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Biden replied “a butcher”.
All of them are in the context of expressing their hatred for Putin, who caused this war without hesitation.
Next, President Biden held a refugee girl and took a “selfie” on her cell phone with the girl’s family. President Biden repeated the expression ‘Brave’ three times to the family living in Ukraine, saying, “You are all brave.”
▶President Biden, who visited Brussels, Belgium on the 24th and attended the NATO summit, the G7 summit, and the European Union (EU) summit one following another, visited Poland on the same day, President Duda He also had a summit meeting with Ukrainian refugees and, prior to meeting with Ukrainian refugees, participated in an unusual meeting between the U.S. and Ukrainian foreign affairs and defense ministers and other working-level officials.
President Biden told Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleva and Defense Minister Olexi Lesnikov, who were present at the meeting, that U.S. efforts to mobilize the world to support Ukraine in its fight once morest Russian aggression and the military and humanitarian aid provided by the U.S. to Ukraine. The White House said it was explaining the state’s support.
▶ During President Biden’s visit to Warsaw, Russia also launched three missile strikes in Lviv, western Ukraine, close to the Polish border. It is interpreted that the attack was conscious of President Biden, located in Warsaw, 400 km away. Foreign media are speculating that Russia’s reaction to President Biden’s calling of Putin “a butcher” was an immediate reaction.