Biden Visits Poland With Military Support On Agenda

Joe Biden landed in Poland on Friday as the U.S. president plans to discuss bolstering NATO's eastern flank.

It was also claimed that he was to see international efforts to provide assistance to millions of Ukrainian refugees who fled their country due to the Russian invasion.

The Daily Sabah reports that Biden was to receive a briefing on the humanitarian response to help civilians sheltering from Russian attacks inside Ukraine and to respond to the growing flow of refugees fleeing Ukraine.

His schedule was delayed after the plane carrying Polish President, Andrzej Duda was turned back on route to Rzeszow and made an emergency landing in Warsaw.

Duda later boarded a different aircraft and headed back to eastern Poland.

After the briefing, Biden was to meet with soldiers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division stationed there as part of NATO's protection of the alliance's eastern flank.

Poland is also reported to be likely to raise the idea of an international peacekeeping mission involving troops being stationed in Ukraine, an idea first proposed by ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski during a trip to Kyiv.