Ukraine allies vow to strengthen defenses

WARSAW: United States President Joe Biden and European leaders in Warsaw vowed to bolster defenses "from the Baltic to the Black Sea" as the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on Thursday for "lasting" peace on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Nearly a year after Moscow's forces rolled into its western neighbor, Biden on Wednesday attended a meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the heads of East European countries to shore up support for Kyiv.