US President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian refugees on Friday at a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, on the final leg of his four-day Europe trip.
Air Force One will land in the Polish town of Rzeszow, a few kilometres from the Ukraine border.
During his visit, Mr Biden is expected to meet members of the US 82nd Airborne Division, part of NATO’s increasingly muscular deployment to its eastern flank.
He will also receive a briefing on the dire humanitarian situation in Ukraine. More than two million refugees have fled to Poland – the capital Warsaw hosts around 300,000 of them.
Mr Biden will meet Polish President Andrzej Duda to thank the country for its humanitarian efforts.
The US President’s trip comes as the West faces urgent questions about what more it will do to help Ukrainians still in the country withstanding the Russian onslaught.
As the war rages on, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has released its latest intelligence assessment of the war, saying that Ukraine has been able to re-take towns and defensive positions east of the capital, Kyiv.
The MoD says Ukraine has also had some success pushing Russian forces back from land they had taken northwest of Kyiv.
The UK’s analysis adds that Russia’s supply lines are over-extended.
BBC
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