U.S. President Biden was in Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday meeting with leaders of NATO’s eastern flank to show support for their security ahead of the one year anniversary of the crisis in Ukraine and days after Russia suspended its involvement in a nuclear arms control treaty.  

The New START arms control treaty limited the number of Russian and U.S. deployed strategic nuclear warheads.

The summit included NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and other leaders from NATO’s easternmost countries known as the Bucharest Nine, including Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis, Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova, and Poland’s President Andrzej Duda.

The Kremlin has said it regards NATO as an existential threat to Russia.

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