Masses of US airborne infantry troops arrived in southeastern Poland on Sunday amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
US Military troops of the 82nd Airborne Department unloading cars from a delivery airplane after getting back from Castle Bragg on the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport in southeastern Poland, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. (AP Picture)
Masses of US elite troops had been anticipated to reach in southeastern Poland close to the border with Ukraine on Sunday on President Joe Biden’s orders to deploy 1,700 infantrymen there amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The airborne infantry troops of the 82nd Airborne Department had been anticipated on the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport. Their commander is Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, who was once the remaining American soldier to depart Afghanistan on August 30.
Biden ordered further US troops deployed to Poland, Romania and Germany to exhibit to each allies and foes The united states’s dedication to NATO’s japanese flank amid emerging tensions between Russia and Ukraine. NATO’s japanese member Poland borders each Russia and Ukraine. Romania borders Ukraine.
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The department can swiftly deploy inside of 18 hours and habits parachute attacks to safe key targets. Primarily based in Castle Bragg, North Carolina, the department’s historical past is going again to 1917.
Previous within the week, US planes introduced apparatus and logistics troops in preparation for the arriving of parts of the department to the airport, positioned some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Poland’s border with Ukraine.
Polish infantrymen have up to now labored along side the USA department on missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, in keeping with Maj. Przemyslaw Lipczynski, spokesman for the Polish Military 18th Mechanized Department.
Some 4,000 US troops were stationed in Poland since 2017, on a rotating foundation.
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