Biden Visits Poland As The Country Grapples With An Inflow Of Ukrainian Refugees

President Joe Biden visited southern Poland on Friday, where he spoke with US troops and charity workers supporting refugees in a country at the center of Ukraine's humanitarian and military conflict.

"What you're working on is far more than determining whether or not you can help the people of Ukraine reduce their agony and suffering. "We're entering a new period, your generation, and we're at a crossroads," Biden addressed the troops.

Biden spoke with US troops stationed in Rzeszow, who began arriving at the military installation there last month as part of the US deterrent operation against Russia.

The president struck up a conversation with a group of service men, referring to them as the "finest fighting force in the history of the planet," and then sat down to share a slice of pizza with them in the mess hall.

Biden stated, "You are the organizing principle around which the rest of the world, the free world, is going." "We're in the middle of a fight between democracies and oligarchs," he says. "I don't want to sound too philosophic here, but we're in the middle of a fight between democracies and oligarchs."

The troops are stationed fewer than 100 miles from a Ukrainian military site hit by Russian missiles earlier this month. The service men have been practicing with their Polish and British counterparts in order to familiarize themselves.