WARSAW: US President Joe Biden has met with Ukrainian ministers and high-ranking officials in Warsaw on Saturday. The US president is in direct talks with the Ukrainian government for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and Defense Minister Oleksi Resnikov arrived in Poland from Ukraine to meet with Joe Biden at the Marriott Hotel in the city center. The hotel where the talks took place was opposite to the Warsaw train station, where Ukraine has had an influx of refugees since the war began. Biden also met with refugees here. Biden met with Culeba in Washington on February 22, two days before the start of the Russian attack.

Thereafter, on March 5, Coleba met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Poland. He will also meet with Polish leaders following his meeting with Ukrainian ministers.