During that first meeting, Biden announced that he is willing to welcome a maximum of 100,000 Ukrainian refugees and that he will deliver an additional one billion dollars, seen by experts as a way to increase the armed conflict in that country.
The president also reported that he will sanction 400 Russian citizens and entities, including 328 deputies of the state Duma and 48 large public companies.
Washington’s priority will be to welcome those Ukrainians “who have relatives in the United States,” said an official US source, quoted by the media.
The US president faces, perhaps, the most important itinerary since his arrival at the White House, and at the end of the appointments, he will travel directly to Poland, within the framework of recent statements by the president of that country.
The Polish head of state, Andrzej Duda, stated that he will increase the military budget as much as necessary, and approved on the 18th the Homeland Defense Law, to double the number of the Army, to a total of almost 400,000 soldiers. .
Poland is a key country geographically, as it borders Ukraine to the east and is the easternmost territory of NATO.
Biden arrived in Brussels the day before with the aim of convincing his allies of the need to impose new sanctions on Russia, after four waves of punitive measures expressly aimed at hitting that country’s economy.
Currently, the United States has some 100,000 soldiers in the European space, some 40,000 of them under direct command of NATO.
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