US President Joe Biden plans to send military reinforcements to Eastern Europe in support of NATO forces, a senior US administration official said on Wednesday, with US media putting the figure at 3,000 troops.
“According to the instructions of the President and in accordance with the recommendations of the Minister [de la Défense Lloyd] Austin, the ministry will reposition certain units stationed in Europe further east,” said the senior American official, without quoting figures.
“These forces will not fight in Ukraine,” he stressed. “These movements are not permanent, they respond to current circumstances.”
A thousand of these soldiers will be redeployed from Germany to Romania, and 2,000 others will be sent from the large American base of Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, to Germany and Poland, according to American media.
Further details will follow.
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