Joe Biden visits Poland in show of support for eastern European nations

With the schedule of the visit flipped upside down, Biden first visited a barber shop at the G2A Arena next to the airport, where 14 US soldiers were sitting in folding chairs awaiting their crew cuts. At the adjacent cafeteria, a tie-less US president joined service members tucking into a pizza lunch at six long tables.

After his meeting with the military, Biden was due to be briefed on the humanitarian situation on the Ukraine border by Samantha Power, the director of the United States Agency for International Development.

Poland has taken in more refugees from Ukraine than any other state in Europe, with the United Nations estimating their numbers at least 2.2 million.