The president of the United States, Joe Biden, met this Tuesday in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart, Andrezj Duda, to study a possible increase in US troops in Poland in a deterrent response to Putin’s hostility in the region. After his unexpected trip to Kyiv on Monday, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, Biden begins a two-day visit to Poland, to proclaim allied unity in the defense of the countries on the eastern flank of NATO.
The president of the United States seeks to project a gesture of solidarity one year after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022. In Kyiv, Biden announced an additional 500 million dollars in military aid to Ukraine.
This afternoon at 5:30 p.m., Joe Biden will deliver a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, designed to describe the war in Ukraine as a battle between democracy and autocracy. To reinforce the idea of ??US support for Eastern Europe, Biden will meet tomorrow Wednesday in Warsaw with the leaders of the Bucharest Nine (B9), as the group of countries on the eastern flank of NATO is called: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Poland, which shares a border of about 530 kilometers with Ukraine, has shown unwavering support for Zelensky and the invaded country since the start of the war, as well as being the country that hosts the most Ukrainian refugees (1.5 million).
The United States had strengthened its military presence on Polish soil as early as last year, when the Russian invasion was perceived as imminent, and currently has some 11,000 soldiers stationed there on a rotating basis, according to US television CBS. Before the tension between Russia and the West broke out over the Russian war against Ukraine, the US military had some 4,500 soldiers in Poland – both within the NATO framework and within the bilateral framework – most of them stationed in the west of the country. rotary shape. In June 2022, Biden said the United States would establish a new permanent military headquarters in Poland in response to the Russian threat.
“We are in the process of discussing with the Biden Administration to make his [troop] presence more permanent and to increase it,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had said on Sunday in an interview with CBS. “I am also very grateful for the shipment of new Patriot systems and other very modern weapons and ammunition, because that is also, to some extent, an indicator of soldier presence; but of course the two things go hand in hand,” Morawiecki said.
Joe Biden arrived in Warsaw on Monday night, after more than eight hours by train from Kyiv to Przemy?l, a Polish border city, the scene for almost a year of massive arrivals of Ukrainians, especially women and children, fleeing the Russian invasion of his country. Biden then took Air Force One presidential jet from Rzeszów airport, 90 kilometers away, landing in Warsaw just before midnight. For security reasons, the White House did not reveal until later how Biden entered the Ukraine or how he planned to leave.
