U.S. President Joseph Biden and Polish President Andrzej Duda will meet today in Rzeszow, Poland, where they will take part in talks with representatives of non-governmental organizations involved in supporting refugees from Ukraine.
This is stated in a message on the website of the Polish head of state.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 2:15 p.m. (3:15 p.m. Kiev time), when the U.S. president's plane is expected to land at the Rzeszow airport.
Duda will also meet in Rzeszow with soldiers of the 18th Mechanized Division, which carries out tasks in the border areas.
According to Polish radio station RMF24, Biden is also scheduled to meet in Rzeszow with soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division sent to Poland in recent weeks as part of the strengthening of NATO's eastern flank. There are nearly 10,000 U.S. soldiers in Poland. The meeting will begin around 4 p.m. (5 p.m. Kyiv time).
Poland is the second stop on Biden's European tour. Earlier on Wednesday, he flew to Brussels, where yesterday he attended an extraordinary NATO summit, a summit of G7 leaders and a Council of Europe summit.
After Rzeszow, the Polish and U.S. presidents will continue talks Saturday in Warsaw, where Biden will deliver a speech in the courtyard of the Royal Castle about "the united efforts of the free world supporting the Ukrainian people, holding Russia responsible for its brutal war and defending a future based on democratic principles," according to the White House.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said a few days ago that Biden would make "an important speech for Polish public opinion, but certainly also for world public opinion."
Rzeszow is about 60 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
As a reminder, responding to reporters' questions at a briefing after the G7 summit in Brussels, Joe Biden said that Putin is not getting what he expected from an attack on Ukraine.
"Putin is just getting the opposite of what he wanted to get from the invasion of Ukraine," Biden said.
He also noted that NATO "has never been as united as it is today." Biden said sanctions "never hold back," but added that Putin's "increased pain" and support for the measures that are being taken will eventually "stop him."
