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U.S. President Joe Biden condemns Putin in his Warsaw address

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Russia's leader Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" in a fiery speech pushing the world's democracies to unite to support Ukraine, though the White House later said Biden was not calling for regime change in Moscow.

President Duda: I asked Biden about speeding up military purchases

Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Saturday (March 26) during his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Warsaw he had asked about the possibility of speeding up military purchases. Duda said he was referring to purchases of Patriot missile systems, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), F-35 aircrafts and Abrams tanks.

Biden in Warsaw: we take Article 5 as a sacred commitment

Poland is taking a "significant" responsibility in the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said during a visit to Warsaw on Saturday (March 26) adding other NATO countries should help lessen the burden. Biden also told his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda he viewed NATO's Article 5 guarantee of mutual defense between member-states as a "sacred" commitment.

Crowd holding Ukrainian flags gathers at Biden's hotel in Warsaw

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Warsaw on Friday shortly before 7 p.m. local time. From the Chopin Airport he went straight to Marriott Hotel in the centre of the city., where he will spend the night. Crowds of local residents gathered along the route of Biden's motorcade.

President Duda arrives in Rzeszów after his airplane made emergency landing

The airplane carrying Polish President Andrzej Duda to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in eastern Poland has made an emergency landing after returning to Warsaw, Duda's advisor Jakub Kumoch was cited as saying by state-run news agency PAP on Friday. After a short delay, the president has eventually departed for Rzeszów in another aircraft.

Air Force One with Joe Biden on board lands safely in Rzeszów

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday landed in Rzeszów, Poland, on Friday to get a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing war in their country, and speak to American troops bolstering NATO's eastern flank.

U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Poland

U.S. President Joe Biden is coming to Poland on Friday for a two-day visit. He will first visit Rzeszów, and then come to Warsaw. Poland's President Andrzej Duda said that Biden's visit would result in "a very serious reinforcement of our country".

Gov't proposes cuts in personal income tax to ease negative impact of war in Ukraine

Poland's government is preparing changes in taxes. The Ministry of Finance proposes to lower the personal income tax rate down to 12% and to scrap the so-called middle class relief. Also proposed was a return to the preferential settlement of a single parent with a child. The changes are to come into force starting 2023, but they will be effective retroactively from July 1, 2022. According to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the reform could increase the budget deficit by 0.5 percentage point.

Poland's MFA calls on Belarus to release Polish activists arrested a year ago

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Wednesday (March 23) to mark the anniversary of detaining representatives of Union of Poles in Belarus, Andżelika Borys and Andrzej Poczobut, by the Belarusian security services. "Andżelika Borys and Andrzej Poczobut, along with over a thousand other political prisoners, symbolise Belarus’s disregard for its international obligations relating to the observance of human rights," the statement reads. The ministry also urged the Belarusian authorities to release Polish activists, "as well as all Belarusian political prisoners held in detention".

They return to their husbands and fathers because Ukraine is their home

"Everyday, some 100-300 Ukrainian citizens decide to return home and board trains bound for Lviv or Odessa," says Deputy Mayor of Przemyśl Bogusław Świeży, and adds that these people are mainly women with children who had fled their homeland after it's been attacked by Russia. They say they decide to return because Ukraine is their home. Despite the ultimate danger, they want to return to their husbands and fathers, who had to stay and defend their country.

Crew abandon aircraft after bringing Ukrainian refugees to Poland

The crew of an Azur Air Ukraine plane have abandoned the aircraft after bringing the last group of Ukrainian refugees from Egypt to Solidarity Szczecin-Goleniów Airport in Poland. The crew members told the airport staff that they were no longer working for the carrier. If the owner does not request to get the aircraft back, it will most likely be sold.

Former U.S. Ambassador Daniel Fried: Biden's visit to Poland will express solidarity of the West

U.S. President Joe Biden will come to Poland on Friday. Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Daniel Fried told TVN24 that Biden's visit "is an important moment for the West and for the defence of freedom". Fried also told TVN24's Piotr Kraśko that Biden was likely to "express the solidarity of the West – the United States and Europe – to defeat Putin’s aggression, to defend freedom in Ukraine, and to not accept Putin’s diktat as fait accompli". The former ambassador added that Biden wanted to underscore "special solidarity with Poland, which is a frontline state and has accepted 2 million Ukrainian refugees with a generosity of spirit that reminds us all that human beings can rise and act according to their better angels," the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland said.