At the beginning of the month, the United States announced that it would send thousands of soldiers to Poland.
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Washington In view of the Ukraine crisis, the US armed forces are temporarily relocating around 3,000 more soldiers to the NATO partner state of Poland. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered this at the behest of President Joe Biden, the Department of Defense said in Washington on Friday.
The soldiers of an airborne division from the state of North Carolina would leave in “the next few days” and should be on site early next week, it said.
The US government had only announced the transfer of around 2,000 soldiers to Europe at the beginning of February. Around 1,700 of these were also to be relocated to Poland, a neighboring country to Ukraine. Two-thirds of them have already arrived, the Pentagon said on Friday. The 300 additional soldiers who were transferred to Germany are already on site.