Obama to Meet Ukraine's Poroshenko in Poland

U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko in Poland on Wednesday, a U.S. official said.

The meeting will take place during a trip by Obama -- also including stops in Belgium and France -- designed to underscore the U.S. security commitment to eastern Europe following Russia's annexation of Crimea, said U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes.

Obama will also meet a large group of central and eastern European leaders in Warsaw, where he will go to take part in the 25th anniversary celebrations of Poland's first free post-communist elections.

In France, where he will travel for the 70th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings in Normandy, Obama will come face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin, from whom he has been estranged over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.

But there are no plans for Obama to hold a formal bilateral meeting with the Russian leader, Rhodes said.