President Joe Biden will depart for Europe on Wednesday, where he is first set to hold talks with NATO allies in Belgium over Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Biden will travel to Brussels, Belgium, and attend a NATO summit on the fighting, as well as a scheduled European Union Summit and a Group of Seven meeting before traveling to Warsaw, Poland on Friday to hold a bilateral meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

The president was scheduled to depart Washington, D.C., around 9 a.m. EDT on Wednesday and arrive in Belgium about seven hours later.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden is a “big believer in face-to-face diplomacy” as he seeks to discuss “where we are at this point” in responding to the invasion.

While at the NATO summit, which is scheduled for Thursday, Psaki said the president and European leaders will examine “ongoing deterrence and defense efforts” in Ukraine, while “shared concerns about Ukraine, including trans- Atlantic efforts to impose economic costs on Russia, provide humanitarian support” would be key talking points at the European Council Summit.

During Thursday's meetings, Biden and the European leaders are expected to announce new sanctions against Russia and other methods to punish those who seek to circumvent existing sanctions.

Presently, Biden does not have any plans to visit Ukraine – mainly due to concerns about entering a major war zone – and he’s not expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in person during the Europe trip. Last week, Zelensky made a rare address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in which he called on swift and decisive U.S. support, including a no-fly zone over Ukraine to block Russian airstrikes.

Biden’s trip to Europe on Wednesday comes after President Kamala Harris visited Poland and Romania and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Eastern Europe earlier this month.

Psaki was supposed to accompany Biden on the European trip, but will not stay home instead after she tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.