WARSAW: US President Joe Biden met NATO and European leaders in Warsaw on Wednesday (Feb 22), with the allies vowing to strengthen defences 'from the Baltic to the Black Sea' - as Russia sought to forge closer ties with China. Biden, who has now left the Polish capital, attended a meeting with NATO chief J
WARSAW: US President Joe Biden met NATO and European leaders in Warsaw on Wednesday , with the allies vowing to strengthen defences"from the Baltic to the Black Sea" - as Russia sought to forge closer ties with China.
The leaders of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia joined the talks amid widespread concern in their countries that the conflict could spill over. Stoltenberg urged allies to step up support for Ukraine, saying:"we cannot allow Russia to continue to chip away at European security".
In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin attended a patriotic rally, telling a crowd of tens of thousands that Russia was fighting"for our historical lands, for our people".
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