▶️U.S. President Joe Biden is welcomed by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak as he arrives at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, in Jasionka, near Rzeszow, Poland, Friday, March 25, 2022.
👉U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Poland on Friday, after meeting in Brussels with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Biden and von der Leyen announced formation of a joint task force to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the profits from its energy sales "to drive his war machine" in Ukraine. Biden said he wanted "to make it clear that the American people would not be part of subsidizing Putin’s brutal, unjustified war against the people of Ukraine."
"We are determined to stand up against Russia's brutal war," von der Leyen said. "This war will be a strategic failure for Putin."
The United States is providing Europe with 15 billion cubic meters of liquid natural gas this year.
In Poland, Biden will go to the eastern town of Rzeszów, near the border with Ukraine. Poland, a NATO ally, has taken in millions of Ukraine refugees.
Late Thursday, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Ukraine told the agency that Russian forces were shelling Ukrainian checkpoints in the city of Slavutych, where many people live who work at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This is putting them at risk and preventing further rotation of personnel to and from the site.
Earlier Thursday, Biden said there would be a Western military response if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.
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