British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit Poland on Thursday, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman said, amid tensions over the security situation in Ukraine.
Johnson will visit British soldiers stationed in Poland together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and will also meet President Andrzej Duda, the spokesman said on Wednesday.
Johnson is also set to meet North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) chief Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on the same day, according to a NATO statement. It did not contain the meeting's agenda.
The visits come as Western countries are working to de-escalate the situation on the Ukrainian border, where thousands of Russian troops are gathered.
Defence minister Ben Wallace had said on Monday week that Britain would send a further 350 troops to Poland. Last year it sent 100 troops to Poland to help support it with a migrant crisis at its border with Belarus.
"Weimar Triangle" backs Ukraine's sovereignty
The leaders of France, Germany and Poland expressed their joint support for Ukrainian sovereignty, the French presidency said in a statement late on Tuesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish President Andrzej Duda also expressed their joint support for the implementation of the Minsk ceasefire agreement, the French presidency said.
The leaders attended a summit in Berlin of the "Weimar Triangle" group, formed 31 years ago after the end of the Cold War, to help deal with the challenges now facing Europe.
The meeting further illustrated the European convergence on a "committed and demanding approach" toward Russia, the French presidency said.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters