Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to visit Warsaw on Wednesday for talks with top Polish officials and meet Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
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Zelenskyy will meet Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
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Later in the day, Zelenskyy and Duda will meet Ukrainian refugees who found safety in Poland at Warsaw's Royal Castle.
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Both heads of state will give speeches there.
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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Poland has taken in over 1.6 million war refugees, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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The NATO member has been a close ally of Ukraine and played a big role in galvanizing Western military and political support for Kyiv.
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"(The visit) should be taken as a sign of trust and of thanking Poland and Poles," said Marcin Przydacz, Polish presidential foreign policy ahead of Zelenskiy's arrival.
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Here are some of the other notable developments concerning Russia's war in Ukraine on Wednesday, April 5:
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Countries which buy uranium from Russia for their nuclear power plants should face sanctions, said German Economy Minister Robert Habeck on his way back from a two-day visit to Kyiv.
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During his visit, Habeck was asked by Ukrainian officials why the purchase of Russian uranium had not yet been banned by the West.
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"And I think there is no good answer to that," said the German minister to reporters.
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He added that it only "seems reasonable" that countries which are still equipping their nuclear power plants with Russian uranium, will have to make adjustments.
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He also insisted on a more consistent enforcement of the existing sanctions on Moscow for invading Ukraine.
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"We have clear data that the existing sanctions are being circumvented via third countries," he said.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is scheduled to visit Moscow on Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The leader will discuss the progress of their Russia-Belarus "Union State", said a statement from the Kremlin.
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The two countries are formally part of a political and economic union andhave been discussing ways to move closer.
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On the second day the Belarusian strongman and Putin will speak on "current bilateral and international issues," said the statement.
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Putin, over the weekend announced that, on the bilateral agenda is a discussion on the stationing of tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory near Poland's border.
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Other international matters will include the war in Ukraine and a reaction to Finland joining NATO.
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ns/es (Dpa, Reuters)
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