A large contingent of US reinforcements, announced to reassure allies in central-eastern Europe in the face of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, arrived at an airport in southeastern Poland on Sunday, the AFP.
A US Air Force Boeing C-17 military transport plane landed at 13:00 GMT at the Rzeszow-Jesionka airport (southeast).
“Other soldiers will arrive in the following hours,” said Mariusz Blaszczak, Polish Defense Minister, in a statement broadcast on television.
According to him, the US contingent of 1,700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division will be deployed “in southeastern Poland, on the eastern flank of NATO.”
The United States announced on Wednesday the sending of 3,000 additional soldiers to Eastern Europe to defend NATO countries “against any aggression”, in full diplomatic activity to try to convince Moscow to withdraw its troops concentrated on the borders with Ukraine .
These new US troops are added to the 8,500 military personnel placed on alert at the end of January by President Joe Biden to be deployed in the NATO rapid reaction force in case of need.
Westerners accuse Russia since the end of 2021 of concentrating thousands of soldiers on the borders with Ukraine with a view to a potential invasion, which is denied by Moscow, which says it wants to guarantee its security. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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