US President Barack Obama was due to arrive in Poland on Tuesday, at the start of a four-day European trip that will also take in a G7 summit in Brussels and a visit to France, the White House said.
He is set to meet Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk for talks expected to focus on the crisis in Ukraine, following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region in March.
On Wednesday, talks are planned in Warsaw between Obama and the new Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko.
The G7 summit, which Obama is to attend from Wednesday, was moved to Brussels after a G8 meeting hosted by Russia in Sochi was cancelled in the wake of events in Ukraine.
The final leg of Obama’s European trip will be in France, where he and European leaders will commemorate the World War II D-Day landings.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is also due to attend the ceremonies, but the White House said no bilateral meeting was planned between the two leaders.