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UK PM to Visit Poland, NATO Chief amid Ukraine Crisis

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 2, 2022. (Reuters)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 2, 2022. (Reuters)
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UK PM to Visit Poland, NATO Chief amid Ukraine Crisis

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 2, 2022. (Reuters)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 2, 2022. (Reuters)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit Poland and NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday 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, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

Johnson is also set to meet North Atlantic Treaty Organization'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.

Defense 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.

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Russia Attacks Ukraine with Drone Barrage, Kills One

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
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Russia Attacks Ukraine with Drone Barrage, Kills One

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

Russia launched a new barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Friday, killing one civilian and wounding more than 30 people in the center, south, and northeast of the country, Ukrainian officials said. The Interior Ministry said one person was killed in Ukraine's southern Odesa region as the Russian forces attacked with drones, damaging civilian infrastructure and residential houses.
According to the ministry's statement on Telegram, nine people were injured in the Odesa region. Four people were wounded in a drone attack on central Kyiv region and at least six private houses and several cars were damaged, the ministry said.
Russia also pounded the city of Kharkiv in the northeast with guided air bombs during the overnight attack, wounding at least 25 people, said Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv regional governor.
Russia has intensified its air attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns, sending swarms of drones almost daily with multiple night-time explosions and the constant sound of drones keeping residents awake.
Ukrainian officials have said frequent drone attacks were an apparent attempt to stretch Ukrainian air defense and increase pressure on the civilian population as the war against Russia nears the 1,000-day mark and Russian troops steadily advance in the east.
Ukraine's military said Russia launched more than 2,000 attack drones at civilian and military targets across the country in October.