Biden to visit city near Ukrainian border in Poland, meet paratroopers – HNonline.sk

On Friday, US President Joe Biden will visit the Polish city of Rzeszów, about 80 kilometers west of the Ukrainian border, where he will meet with Polish President Andrzej Dud. This was announced on Thursday evening by local time by the White House, which has not yet informed about the details of Biden’s visit to Poland, the AFP agency reports. The American president will visit Poland as part of the second phase of his extraordinary trip to Europe, initiated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biden met with European leaders in Brussels on Thursday at NATO, EU and G7 summits. AFP recalls that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also stopped in Rzeszów on March 5. He was visiting Poland to show his support for the countries of the so-called the eastern wing of the North Atlantic Alliance, which in the past belonged to the so-called Soviet sphere of influence and in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine fear further action by Moscow. The White House added that during his visit to Poland, Biden would also be aware of how Poland is coping with the onslaught of several million Ukrainian refugees who fled here from Russian shelling and bombing. In Rzeszów, the American president is also to meet with members of the American 82nd Airborne Division, who have been in Poland since February, where they came to strengthen NATO’s eastern wing.