SIVERSK/WARSAW: US President Joe Biden is due to visit Poland on Monday (Feb 20) to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, which said it was inflicting heavy losses on Mos
members to press Biden's administration to send F-16 fighters to Kyiv, saying the aircraft would boost Ukraine's ability to hit Russian missile units with US-made rockets, US lawmakers said.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday that he and Biden would discuss possibly increasing US troop presence in Poland and making it more permanent, during Biden's Feb 20 to Feb 22 visit. "We are in the process of discussion with President Biden's administration about making their presence more permanent and increasing them," Morawiecki said on CBS's"Face the Nation".French President Emmanuel Macron suggested over the weekend that Russia should be"defeated but not crushed" and that the conflict in Ukraine would have to be settled by negotiations, although there is presently no prospect of peace talks.
"It is up to them to choose or not to cooperate with the community of nations on the basis of mutual respect."
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