as a major address that will speak to the stakes of this moment. they say that he will talk about the united efforts of the free world to support the people of ukraine, hold russia accountable for its brutal war and defend a future rooted in democratic principles. and i think an important address given here in a country that was, of course, for decades behind the iron curtain, part of the warsaw pact, the soviet military pact that made poland a soviet satellite. and yet now poland is at the center of european security and european solidarity, and that is really a sense ofjust how much the tectonic plates of europe have changed and how much has changed in the last month with president biden very keen to present the western alliance really as totally united in the face of russia s aggression. yeah, totally united, but there is a sort of difference, isn t there in the sense of poland wanting to do more and offering its warplanes to ukraine, something that president biden thinks could be p
leader, his counterpart, and also significantly, also meeting some other ukrainian ministers, the foreign minister will be there as well as the defence minister. some pretty significant officials travelling from ukraine to poland to be part of these talks with the us president, who has been in poland, this will be his second day. he visited troops on friday, some 50 miles from the ukrainian border, whilst he was there he said i don t want to sound philosophical, but you are in the midst of a fight between democracy and oligarch. you remember that in the build up to the russian invasion president biden sent some 5000, five and a half thousand additional troops to that border to try and bolster nato troops. part of
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be meeting his polish counterpart and joe biden is holding talks, we understand, with two ukrainian ministers in poland. this is going to be his first face to face meeting with such high level ukrainian officials since the russian invasion officials since the russian invasion of ukraine. the white house is saying joe biden is going to drop by at a meeting between the us secretary of state and the us defence secretary with their ukrainian counterparts. some observers actually suggesting the fact that ukrainian ministers have left ukraine and gone to poland for that meeting is perhaps a sign that they are increasingly confident about how the war with russia is going. joe biden, who has been in poland since yesterday meeting his polish counterpart, and then mr biden is going to make a major speech about the conflict later on
clothes and medicine to those people here in lviv. let s talk about the situation in poland. i have been talking to the deputy foreign minister of poland and i asked him what more help he wants from the western military alliance. first what more help he wants from the western military alliance.- western military alliance. first of all, i western military alliance. first of all. i think western military alliance. first of all. i think it western military alliance. first of all, i think it is western military alliance. first of all, i think it is ukraine western military alliance. first of all, i think it is ukraine that - all, i think it is ukraine that needs help right now when it comes to the humanitarian assistance and political support, and that is what we are providing together with our allies. the second we need to do is the continuation of sanctions on russia in order to push russia to withdraw their troops from ukraine. when it comes to the refugee influx, 2.5 million of