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• Biden will attend the NATO and EU summit, both on March 24
• Over 3 million refugees have fled Ukraine
U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Europe next week to discuss the Russia-Ukraine crisis with NATO and European allies, the White House said on Tuesday.
Biden will join a NATO summit at Brussels, Belgium, on March 24 and attend a scheduled European Council summit the same day for discussions on further sanctions on Russia and humanitarian efforts for Ukraine.
“While he’s there, his goal is to meet in person, face to face, with his European counterparts and talk about, assess where we are at this point in the conflict in the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. We’ve been incredibly aligned to date,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
“That doesn’t happen by accident. The president is a big believer in face-to-face diplomacy. So it’s an opportunity to do exactly that.”
Moreover, according to the United Nations, 3 million people have already fled Ukraine, with over 1.8 million arriving in neighboring Poland, and the refugee crisis is only expected to get worse.
Worst humanitarian crisis
Russia’s so-called “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine has already received flak from the Western nations, and the U.S. said the attack is “unprovoked and unjustified.”
On Tuesday, the fourth round of talk between Russia and Ukraine via a video link. Ukrainian officials played up hopes the war could end sooner than expected, saying Moscow may be coming to terms with its failure to impose a new government by force.
Last week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said Moscow indicated that it will continue with attacks until Ukraine surrenders.
Moscow has not been able to capture any of the ten largest cities in Ukraine following its incursion since February 24, the largest assault on a European state since 1945.
Mariupol, the eleventh largest city, situated in the southwestern region of Ukraine and around 40 miles from the Russian border, has seen the worst humanitarian crisis since the war.