The US will send 3,000 soldiers to Eastern Europe due to the risk of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Pentagon on Wednesday confirmed the dispatch of 3,000 US troops to allied countries in Eastern Europe amid tension with Russia over Ukraine.

The spokesman for the United States Department of Defense, John Kirbysaid that 1,000 soldiers will be deployed in Romaniawhile another 2,000 will be sent to Poland Y Germany.

“The current situation demands that we strengthen the dissuasive and defensive posture on NATO’s eastern flank”, he underlined kirby.

In the case of Romaniathe United States will relocate 1,000 soldiers who are currently stationed in Germany on Romanian territory “in the coming days”.

“It is an attack squad and cavalry unit that are designed to be deployed at short notice and move quickly once they are situated.”, Said the spokesman, who added that these troops will be added to the 900 that the United States currently has in Romania.

In parallel, some 2,000 soldiers, who are now on US soil, will travel to Europe in the coming days. On one side will be members of the 82nd Airborne Division, which will deploy an infantry combat team to Poland.

In response to a question from a journalist, kirby He clarified that most of those 2,000 troops will go to Poland.

On the other hand, the 18th Airborne Corps will send a task force to Germany.

This group “is trained and equipped for a variety of missions to deter aggression and reaffirm our commitment to allies”, he indicated kirbywho remarked that these will be missions “temporary” and not permanent, and that they will not go to fight in Ukraine.

The Pentagon recalled that apart from these forces U.S maintains 8,500 soldiers in its territory in “high alert”, that they are ready to be mobilized, but that at the moment they are not going to do it.

kirby He also specified that the troops sent to Romania they will be under US command, without specifying whether those going to Poland and Germany will be under that command or that of NATO.

He recalled that the 8,500 who are in “high alert” in U.S they would be deployed under the Atlantic Alliance Response Force.

Tension has spiked in the last month over the concentration of more than 100,000 Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine.

Moscow has repeatedly repeated that it does not want a war with Kiev and that it does not threaten Ukraine.