Obama heads to Europe to discuss Ukraine crisis
US President Barack Obama left Washington on Monday to begin a four-day European trip to Poland, Belgium and France to urge more pressure on Russia over their dispute on the Ukrainian crisis. Obama will land in Poland on Tuesday and hold meetings with the Polish president and prime minister. On Wednesday, he will meet Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko in the Polish capital Warsaw. The crisis in Ukraine will be at the heart of the conversations. After Poland, Obama will travel to Brussels to attend the G-7 summit, which will be dominated by a US push to a sometimes reluctant Europe to maintain the economic pressure on Russia.
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