On the first anniversary of the outbreak of the Ukraine War, President Biden, who is visiting Poland, the eastern frontier of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a bordering country with Ukraine, said on the 22nd, local time, the ‘Bucharest Nine Countries (B9)’, a security consultative body between NATO eastern front countries. This is how he answered reporters’ questions right after arriving at the Warsaw Presidential Palace for the summit.
This is the first reaction to President Putin’s announcement in his State of the Union address the previous day that “the deterioration in bilateral relations is entirely the fault of the United States,” and that “Russia will stop participating in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement.”
President Biden told the heads of nine countries, “B9 is the forefront of NATO’s collective defense system,” and said, “We will discuss the next move that allies can take together.”
“The United States’ commitment to NATO is to defend even an inch of NATO territory,” he said.
President Biden also said he would continue to support Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war.
The nine countries of Bucharest, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia, formed a NATO eastern front country the following year to jointly respond to Russia’s security threats following Russia’s forcible annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014. built around it.
