US President Joe Biden will travel this Friday to Poland, the country that has received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees after the Russian invasion, where he will visit the town of Rzeszów, near the border with Ukraine, the White House reported.
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The American president He will travel directly to that Polish city from Brussels, the first stop on his European trip, and will be received by the President of Poland, Andrzej Dudaearly in the afternoon.
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There he will be informed about the humanitarian response to welcome the growing number of Ukrainian refugees arriving at the border, according to the presidential agenda.
Next, Biden will meet with members of the 82nd Airborne Military Division of the US Armed Forces, deployed to the area to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank.
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Rzeszów, with nearly 200,000 inhabitants, is the main city in southeastern Poland and is just an hour’s drive from the border with Ukraine..
Biden will then fly to the Polish capital Warsaw, where he will continue his schedule on Saturday before flying back to Washington.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began a month ago, has sparked a refugee movement in Europe not seen since World War II: there are already 3.6 million people, but the number continues to increase.
Of these, Poland is the main recipient, where 2,175,000 have arrived, and of which around 1.2 million still remain in the country, while the rest have moved to other European countries, especially Germany.
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