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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, February 20th.

This is your FT News Briefing.

This week we're focusing on the war in Ukraine.

It'll be one year since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion,

and today we'll look at Poland's role in the West's response,

and we'll find out who's got the upper hand on the battlefield

after 12 months of intense fighting.

It's almost like before one of those American football games where both sides are

glouring at each other, sort of scrunching against each other at the moment.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

U.S. President Joe Biden heads to Warsaw this week.

It's his second trip to Poland in less than a year.

That really speaks to how important Poland has become,

and as Western allies forcefully respond to the war,

here's the FT's diplomatic correspondent, Henry Foy.

Poland's been the fulcrum if you like of both military support for Ukraine.

The vast majority of Western weapons that have been supplied to Ukraine have gone

through into Poland first, been collected there, and then shipped across the Polish border.

But also diplomatically, Poland has been the diplomatic heart of the push

to make Europe take this more seriously.

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