US President Joe Biden on Friday said his advisers have told him he could not visit the Poland-Ukraine border because of security concerns, as he hailed the courage of Ukrainians – soldiers and ordinary citizens alike – who’ve taken up arms to defend against the now month-long unprovoked Russian invasion of their country.
Speaking at a briefing on the humanitarian crisis brought about by Russia’s aggression alongside Polish president Andrzej Duda, Mr Biden compared the Ukrainian people’s defence of their country to the students who stood up to China’s communist government during pro-democracy protests in the late 1980s, and hailed the “courage, passion, resilience” of Ukraine’s people.
