By: EFE Updated 04 Mar 2022, 16: 31 pm EST
The Pentagon announced this Monday the dispatch of 500 soldiers additional Americans to countries on the eastern flank of NATO, in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The spokesman for the US Department of Defense John Kirby told a news conference that the military ” are being positioned to respond to the current security environment caused by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine”.
Of those 500, some 150 effective with KC-refueling aircraft 80 will immediately deploy to Souda Bay, Greece, to support the supply of fuel to the US Command in Europe (EUCOM).
These soldiers will be joined by 40 Fort Stew Air Support Operations Center Military art, in Georgia (USA), which will be transferred to Poland and Romania to offer support to EUCOM’s aerial activities.
Also, some 300 American soldiers, from Fort Stewart and Fort Bragg (North Carolina), will travel to Germany to form an artillery ordinance company specialized in modular ammunition.
Specifically those 300 troops will support the US First Infantry Division Armored Brigade Combat Team, which is already is in Germany.
Kirby stressed that in no case will the soldiers be deployed on Ukrainian soil to fight face to face with the Russians and that these are temporary movements.
The spokesman described these military of additional “facilitators”, which will go along with the 7, that has already desp legacy in recent weeks.
The past 24 February, at the start of the Russian invasion, US President Joe Biden ordered the deployment of 7,000 additional US military to Germany to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank.
These troops joined the 6,800 soldiers displaced by the US during the weeks prior to Europe (in countries on the eastern flank of NATO such as Romania, Germany or Poland).
Apart from all those troops, USA. has more than 80,000 in uniform who are on the European continent on permanent or rotating missions s .
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