Biden Visits Poland to Express Support Amid Refugee Crisis Due to Russia–Ukraine War

President Joe Biden visited Poland on Friday in an expression of support for the NATO member nation amid the Russia–Ukraine war, and to thank Poles having welcomed Ukrainian refugees who fled after Russia’s invasion. More than 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Feb. 24 invasion, of which over 2.2 million have entered Poland, according to the United Nations. The Democrat president made a surprise visit to the Polish town of Rzeszów, about 60 miles (96.5 km) or an hour’s drive from the Ukrainian border. There, he met with several service members of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division at a barber shop, and later met more of the division’s soldiers at a dining facility, where ate some pizza with the soldiers for lunch. The elite division specializes in parachute assault operations. Almost 5,000 soldiers from the division have been in Poland since Feb. 6, and were deployed at the time amid fears …