US President Joe Biden said on Monday he would visit Poland but did not know when, after US media reported last week that the White House leader was considering a trip to Europe around February 24, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Reuters.

NBC News reported last week that several countries, including Poland, were being considered for Joe Biden’s visit to Europe around the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The White House is mulling ways Biden could mark the anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine, three administration officials and a person familiar with the discussions told NBC. The goal, they said, is for Biden to use the moment to draw attention to Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s brutal military campaign and reaffirm U.S. solidarity with the Ukrainian people as the conflict moves into a new phase.

One of the goals of this trip by Biden to Europe would be to create such a symbolically significant and strategically effective moment as Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s visit to Washington in December to maintain the desire to support Ukraine, said an interlocutor familiar with the discussions.

It will be recalled that on January 25, President Joe Biden announced that the United States would send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as part of a larger effort by European allies to demonstrate that they are still united against the Russian invasion.

Today, however, he said he would not send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, despite demands from Ukrainian officials, including Zelenskyi, who called for long-range jets and missiles.

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Ukraine received a huge boost for its troops last week when Germany and the United States announced plans to supply heavy tanks, ending weeks of diplomatic impasse over the issue. Poland, Ukraine’s neighbor on the western border, has positioned itself as one of the staunchest allies of the Kyiv government.