• Biden will meet with leaders of the Bucharest Nine.
• Bucharest Nine-banded together in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
• Many fear that if Putin is successful in Ukraine, he will take military action against them next.

President Joe Biden is winding up a four-day trip to Poland and Ukraine by assuring NATO’s eastern flank members that his government is acutely aware of the future risks and other consequences of Russia’s relentless assault on Ukraine.

Before leaving Warsaw on Wednesday, Biden will meet with leaders of the Bucharest Nine, a group of states from the NATO alliance’s most eastern flanks that banded together in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

As the Ukraine conflict continues, the Bucharest Nine countries’ concerns have grown. Many fear that if Putin is successful in Ukraine, he will take military action against them next. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia are all members of the alliance.

“When Russia invaded, it wasn’t just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced a test for the ages,” Biden said in an address from the foot of Warsaw’s Royal Castle on Tuesday to mark the somber milestone of the year-old Russian invasion. “Europe was being tested. America was being tested. NATO was being tested. All democracies were being tested.”

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