Top US diplomat visits Poland as Russia’s war in Ukraine intensifies

Antony Blinken and Poland’s foreign minister Zbigniew Rau (Pool/AP)

US secretary of state Antony Blinken is visiting eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine as Russia intensifies its war against the former Soviet republic.

Mr Blinken arrived in the city of Rzeszow on Saturday for talks with top Polish officials and is set to go to a frontier post to meet Ukrainian refugees later in the day.