THE Joe Bidenwhich has repeatedly pledged to defend “every inch” of NATO territory, visited US troops stationed in Polandnear the border with Ukraine.
After landing of the presidential aircraft Air Force One In Rzeszow, 80 miles (80 km) from the border, the U.S. president began a long-awaited two-day visit, meeting with soldiers from the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division.
This division, the last to leave Afghanistan last summer, is part of the forces deployed on NATO’s east wing to bolster the US military presence against invasion of Russia in Ukraine.
THE US President, The commander-in-chief of the US military, which has stepped up its presence in Eastern Europe and whose 10,500 members are based mainly in Poland, joked with haircut soldiers.
Biden then, in a suit and striped shirt but no tie, sat among soldiers in a dining room to eat a slice of pizza.
«Thank you“Thank you, thank you,” he repeated many times to the soldiers present. Smiling, he shook hands and took pictures, grabbing a phone to take a selfie.
“You are at the center of a battle between democracy and totalitarianism,” Biden said in a brief speech. “What you do is important, really important,” he said.
With this visit, o American president wants to symbolize, according to the White House, the United States’ commitment to protect its countries NATOan obligation that Joe Biden has repeatedly called “sacred.”
Biden is expected to hold talks focusing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and the region, according to the White House.
THE Polish President Andrei Duda He was expected to receive his American counterpart at the airport in Rzeszow but did not make it, as his plane had technical problems.
Then, the American president will go to Warsaw for talks with Polish leaders and a visit to a Ukrainian refugee reception center.
Biden is set to wrap up his visit, which comes a month after the Russian president Vladimir Putin started the war against Ukraine, tomorrow Saturday with a speech that the White House promises “important” and “important”.
THE visit in Poland comes the next day with intense diplomatic activity in Brussels, when Joe Biden said that NATO is “united as never before” after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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