The US is sending an extra 3,000 troops to Poland, the place 1,700 fight troops have assembled within the case of Russia invading Ukraine, in keeping with a senior protection official.
The extra troopers will depart from Fort Bragg, North Carolina over the subsequent few days, and arrive in Poland early subsequent week. They're the remaining parts of an infantry brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, a senior protection official confirmed to the Related Press.
The information of the newest deployment comes shortly after Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s nationwide safety adviser, issued a public warning for all Americans in Ukraine to depart the nation as quickly as doable.
In his warning, Sullivan mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin might give the order to launch an invasion of Ukraine any day now.
The Pentagon has not mentioned that US forces are in Poland to assist People looking for security from a doable Russian invasion, however the risk hasn’t been dominated out.
‘These troopers might be utilized in a point with evacuation help on the opposite facet of that border,’ press secretary John Kirby mentioned on Wednesday. ‘And positively, they’re going to be ready to do this.’
Along with the US troops deploying to Poland, about 1,000 U.S. troopers primarily based in Germany are shifting to Romania in the same mission of reassurance to a NATO ally.
The American troops are to coach with host-nation forces, and won't enter Ukraine below any circumstances. Western officers consider that Russia has amassed between 100,000 and 140,000 troops alongside its western border with Ukraine, with hundreds extra going down in navy trainings in Belarus.
The US already has about 80,000 troops all through completely different elements of Europe at everlasting stations.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has additionally positioned 1,000 troops on stand-by to reply to any humanitarian disaster on Europe’s border throughout talks at NATO headquarters.
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