Trump to meet with Polish president Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine

Presumptive Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to conscionable with Polish President Andrzej Duda connected Wednesday successful New York

NEW YORK -- Presumptive Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to conscionable with Polish President Andrzej Duda connected Wednesday successful New York.

The planned meal meeting, confirmed by a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter, comes arsenic European leaders hole for the anticipation that Trump mightiness triumph the November election and instrumentality to the White House. Leaders of NATO countries are particularly acrophobic fixed Trump's agelong past of captious comments astir the cardinal occidental alliance, adjacent aft Russia's penetration of Ukraine.

The idiosyncratic was not authorized to talk publically and spoke connected information of anonymity.

Poland, which shares a borderline with Ukraine, is simply a NATO member. Duda, a right-wing populist whose word ends successful 2025, has encouraged the United States to nonstop further backing to Ukraine to combat Russian aggression.

Trump has spoken retired against specified funding, but successful a imaginable displacement precocious past week, the Republican statesmanlike campaigner said helium whitethorn enactment further backing if it was successful the signifier of a loan.

Trump is successful New York this week for the opening of his transgression hush wealth trial, which has dramatically constricted his run movements. He is present the archetypal erstwhile president successful U.S. past to basal transgression trial.

Republicans successful Washington, meanwhile, are warring amongst themselves implicit a monolithic overseas assistance bundle for Ukraine, Israel and different allies. Trump's “Make America Great Again” question has been particularly captious of the Ukraine funding, a presumption successful enactment with the GOP’s softening stance connected Russia since Trump's emergence successful U.S. politics.

Trump has agelong praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling his penetration of Ukraine “smart” and “savvy.” In February, helium sent shockwaves crossed the globe aft recounting during a rally that helium had told NATO members who didn’t walk capable connected defence that helium would “encourage” Russia to “do immoderate the hellhole they want” to them. He reiterated that menace days later.

Such a determination would undermine Article 5, which states that an equipped onslaught against 1 NATO subordinate oregon much shall beryllium considered an onslaught against each members.

Another NATO subordinate and cardinal proponent of supporting Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, met with Trump astatine the erstwhile president’s Florida property earlier successful the period up of a sojourn with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Russia's European allies person courted Trump arsenic well.

Hungary’s premier minister, Viktor Orban, an autocrat who has maintained the closest narration with Russia among each European Union countries, met privately with Trump past month.

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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin successful New York contributed to this report.