US VP HARRIS HEADS TO POLAND, ROMANIA TO DISCUSS STEPS AGAINST RUSSIA

Wed 09 March 2022:

US Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Poland on Wednesday to discuss how to provide “military assistance” for Ukraine, White House officials said, hours after Washington rejected Warsaw’s offer of Soviet-era fighter jets. She will also head to Romania on Friday to meet with President Klaus Iohannis.

The trip was planned before Poland took the United States by surprise on Tuesday by offering to send its Mig-29 jets to Ukraine via a US air base. Washington rejected the proposal.

Harris will meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, according to US officials who requested anonymity, focusing on ways NATO members can implement economic sanctions. While there, Harris will also engage with Ukrainian refugees in Poland, discuss continuing humanitarian and security assistance to Ukraine and the region, they said. The number of refugees created by the invasion has surpassed 2 million.

‘Potentially dangerous scenario’

The Kremlin on Wednesday said that a Polish offer to deliver Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine via a US airbase could lead to a “dangerous scenario”, as Russian troops continued their advance into Ukraine. “This is a highly undesirable and a potentially dangerous scenario,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

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