Polish President Andrzej Duda is anticipated this week to press President Biden during his Warsaw visit to extend the variety of everlasting U.S. troops in nations alongside Russia’s borders, a high diplomat within the U.S. instructed Fox Information Digital.
Biden’s go to comes after Monday’s shock journey to Ukraine, the place he met with President Zelenskyy. All this taking place simply days forward of the one-year anniversary of the warfare in Ukraine, and Poland is in search of slightly acknowledgment for the function it has played in aiding Ukraine.
“I feel one of many functions of President Biden’s go to to Poland is definitely to…emphasize help, U.S. help to Poland,” Adrian Kubicki, Poland’s Consul Common in New York mentioned. “[It] can be essential that President Biden listens to what we now have to say when it comes to the way to improve our safety.”
Polish President Andrzej Duda and President Biden inspects the Polish guard on the presidential Palace on March 26, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland. (Picture by Omar Marques/Getty Photographs)
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Poland has been a high supplier in defensive and humanitarian assist for Ukraine, alongside the U.S., for the reason that warfare started.
Warsaw has not solely taken within the biggest variety of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war-torn nation, nevertheless it has additionally led NATO negotiations to push for newer and quicker tools deliveries to Ukraine, together with tanks earlier this yr.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, proper, and President Biden shake arms throughout their assembly in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP)
Practically a dozen nations have pledged tanks for Kyiv, and Poland is now working with allied nations to evaluate whether or not warplanes may very well be subsequent on the defensive assist itinerary.
Nonetheless, Kubicki identified that Poland, in addition to all Baltic nations near Russia and Ukraine, are below risk from Russian aggression.
“We wish to see an elevated presence, everlasting presence, of U.S. troops proper on the doorstep of the continued warfare – which is Poland,” he mentioned. “U.S. troops ought to be current completely in our nations given the scenario…and what may doubtlessly occur sooner or later if Russia is, God forbid, profitable in Ukraine.”
A supporter welcomes U.S. troopers of the third Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Military on the Czech-Poland border on March 29, 2015 in Harrachov, Czech Republic. Polish President Duda anticipated to push President Biden to extend permanant U.S. troop depend in nations that border Ukraine and Russia. (Picture by Matej Divizna/Getty Photographs)
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Russia has threatened to push its aggression past Ukraine’s borders for the reason that warfare started, setting its sights on Moldova, which is west of Ukraine and the place a contingent of Russian sympathizers stay in an space often called Transnistria.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned earlier this month that Kyiv had thwarted a Russian plot to overthrow the Moldovan authorities – a declare the Moldovan authorities confirmed – which reignited considerations relating to Moscow’s general aggression in direction of Europe.
Kubicki mentioned that Poland believes Russia is incapable of overthrowing Kyiv as Russian President Vladimir Putin initially meant, or of invading one other European nation. Nonetheless, he warned that Moscow is taking part in the lengthy sport.
Troopers with the 82nd Airborne division take heed to directions earlier than deploying to Poland on Feb. 14, 2022 at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina forward of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Picture by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Photographs)
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“Putin has time,” he mentioned. “We all know long run – Poland truly discovered the laborious means via our historical past – that this ambition…[is] nonetheless legitimate. It would not must occur instantly.
“If we don’t put a full cease [to] this outrageous invasion of Ukraine, we’re 100% sure that ultimately Putin will try to invade different nations,” Kubicki warned.
