The US have announced plans to send additional 2 700 troops to NATO members Poland and Romania, as Washington pointed to Russia’s unwillingness to deescalate the security situation around Ukraine in this week’s talks, British news portal The Guardian reports.
On Wednesday, February 2, the US Department of Defence unveiled that in coming days it will send 1,700 troops from the US 82nd Airborne Division to Poland, a headquarters unit of about 300 from the 18th Airborne Corps will move to Germany and a 1,000-strong armoured unit is being transferred from Germany to Romania.
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To substantiate the move, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby evaluated that Russian President Vladimir Putin «shown no signs of being interested or willing to de-escalate the tensions». According to Kirby, «Putin continues to add forces, combined arms, offensive capabilities, even over just the last 24 hours he continues to add in western Russia and Belarus, and in the Mediterranean and the north Atlantic».
Moscow sees Washington as acting worryingly
Russian state news agency TASS reports that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that «US de facto is continuing to pump up tension in Europe». The Russian spokesman added that the deployments are «the best proof that we, as Russia, have an obvious reason to be worried».
US to send 2 700 troops to Poland, Romania
