US President Joe Biden makes a statement on Russia to the President of the European Commission at the residence of the Head of the US Delegation in Brussels, on March 25, 2022.
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President Joe Biden will land in Rzeszów, Poland, on Friday to begin the second leg of an emergency trip to Europe, a month after a gratuitous invasion of Russia or Ukraine.
After a day of NATO and G-7 summits in Brussels, which focused on military readiness and sanctions against Russia, Biden’s visit to Poland offers the president a chance showing the cost of Russia’s increasingly brutal war.
During his two days in Poland, Biden is expected to meet some more than 3.7 million refugees who were forced to flee Ukraine, most of them women and children.
Biden will also meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda to discuss the worsening humanitarian crisis in countries surrounding Ukraine, which has borne the brunt of the influx of refugees.
Poland, which shares a 530 km land border with Ukraine, is at the epicenter of the ongoing European migration crisis, has welcomed more than 2.2 million people – almost two-thirds of all refugees – in the month since the outbreak of war.
Several other countries on Ukraine’s southwestern border have also received large numbers of migrants, including Romania, with more than 570,000, Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia.
That has put considerable strain on authorities, the health care system and humanitarian aid agencies with host nations calling for greater financial support from Western allies to support them. The number of visitors is still increasing.
Biden is sometimes called America’s “total consolation” by the state for his ability to empathize with those who have experienced great tragedy, something that Biden, a widow who has remarried and has lost two of his four children. your child, can be personally contacted.
On Thursday, Biden announced the United States was ready to commit more than $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to help Ukrainians still in the country and who have become refugees.
“Many Ukrainian refugees will want to stay in Europe, closer to home,” Biden said, so they can quickly return to Ukraine as soon as the war is over.
However, for those looking to move to the US, Biden said the country is set to welcome 100,000 Ukrainians, “with a focus on reuniting families.”
As the war continued and the Russian army failed to make significant advances, the President of Russia Vladimir PutinThe tactics of increasingly barbaric.
As Biden departed for Europe on Wednesday, the US government formally accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine and said those responsible faced prosecution.
In announcing the official US resolve, Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeatedly cited the atrocities in Mariupol, Ukraine, and he compared it to similar Russian campaigns against Grozny during the Second Chechen War. two and Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.
“Russian forces destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure, civilian vehicles, shopping malls and ambulances, leaving thousands of innocent civilians dead or injured,” Blinken said in a statement.
Many of the buildings that Russian forces attacked were “clearly identified as being used by civilians,” Blinken said, citing the bombings of the Mariupol maternity hospital and a theater in London. which is clearly marked with children’s letters in Russian “in large visible letters. from the sky.”
—Karen Gilchrist of CNBC contributed to this article.
