More NATO security guarantees and more alliance troops on Polish soil. Two pledges made by Andrzej Duda, who was sworn in as Poland’s new president on Thursday.
Kremlin-critic and opposition-backed Duda becomes the country’s sixth head of state since the fall of communism in 1989. Following Russia’s military invasion in Ukraine’s two easternmost regions, the 43-year-old remained firm in his support for securing regional security, much like his predecessor Bronislaw Komorowski.