Vice President Kamala Harris turned to Polish President Andrzej Duda for help.on a question about Ukrainian refugees at a joint press conference Thursday.
A reporter pressed Harris on the Ukrainian refugee crisis during her joint press conference with Duda in Poland Thursday, saying that according to a colleague's reporting, Poland would not be equipped to handle an influx of Ukrainian refugees. Her colleague said that, in its current state, the refugee system in Poland will collapse because it's an improvised system that can work for"maybe two weeks, but not indefinitely.
Harris later said she understood the"unprecedented" situation presented to the Polish government, but did not say how many refugees the U.S. would be willing to take.
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