Biden sends Harris to Poland and Romania amid global crisis
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Ashley Parker, Missy Ryan - 6h ago
As chaos spreads in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden is dispatching Vice President Harris to Eastern Europe on an urgent mission this week to reinforce Western unity, reassure allies of U.S. protection and promise aid as more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees flee their homes.
Harris will meet with leaders in Poland on Thursday and their counterparts in Romania a day later, in what amounts to an extension of her recent trip to a global security conference in Germany. There, in the earliest days of the Russian invasion, Harris met with an array of European and world leaders, including NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an effort to hold the Western alliance together.
“It’s clearly an important mission,” said Richard Weitz, a former Defense Department official who is now with the Hudson Institute. “These countries took unprecedented risks in coming to Ukraine’s defense, clearly to the annoyance of the Russian leadership, and so they’re probably looking for reassurance.”
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