Washington. January 29. INTERFAX - US President Joe Biden said that he intends to send additional military personnel to the territory of NATO countries in Eastern Europe soon, Western media reported.
According to them, Biden explained that he would do it "in the near future."
Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that it had put 8.5 thousand military personnel on high alert just in case they needed to be transferred to Europe due to the tense situation around Ukraine.
The representative of the US Department of Defense, John Kirby, informed reporters at a briefing yesterday that several airborne divisions of the US Army are among the military units put on high alert for possible deployment in Eastern Europe in the event of an aggravation of the situation in Ukraine.
By now, it is planned that 8.5 thousand American troops will be part of the NATO rapid reaction force of 40 thousand. They are a joint operational group of troops of a very high degree of combat readiness, combat aircraft, ships and special operations forces.
American units were "notified but not activated." They will be sent to the eastern flank of NATO, and not to Ukraine, which is not a member of the alliance, Kirby said.
