US President Joe Biden has no plans to visit Ukraine: White House

US President Joe Biden does not plan to visit to Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a tweet Sunday. The statement comes as the Democrat is scheduled to travel to Europe for an emergency NATO meeting on the Russian invasion. 

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had announced he was calling for the alliance’s leaders to meet in Brussels to discuss their response to Russia’s attack.

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“The trip will be focused on continuing to rally the world in support of the Ukrainian people and against President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but there are no plans to travel into Ukraine,” press secretary Jen Psaki said in a tweet.

She added that Biden plans to meet his European counterparts in person. 

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“His goal is to meet in person, face to face, with his European counterparts and talk about where we are in the conflict with Russia,” Psaki said.

A bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers visiting Poland said Saturday that the most urgent need in Ukraine’s fight against a Russian invasion is to equip and support the country in every way that will help it defend its independence.

The seven-member delegation led by Rep. Stephen Lynch, a Democrat from Massachusetts, visited reception centers for refugees from Ukraine in eastern Poland. They noted Poland’s openness in accepting refugees from Ukraine, including in private homes. More than two million people fleeing war have come to Poland since February 24, when Russia’s troops invaded Ukraine.

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Meanwhile, on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he is ready for negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. He, however, warned that if peace talks fail, the word is heading towards a ‘third World War’. 

“I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War,” he said in an exclusive CNN interview.