Donald Trump has announced the US will be sending an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, just days after the Pentagon cancelled a planned deployment of 4,000 troops to the country
Donald Trump says the US will be deploying 5,000 troops to Poland amid nuclear threats from Vladimir Putin.
It comes just days after the Pentagon cancelled the deployment of thousands of troops to the NATO state.
The announcement by Trump – which appeared to take his own defence department by surprise – followed war games by Russia and its ally Belarus which both share borders with Poland.
The move will be seen as reassuring to Poland and the neighbouring NATO member Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
It came hours after Putin took personal command of massive nuclear war games involving Russia and Belarus. He said: “I have already noted and will emphasise again that the use of such nuclear weapons is an extreme, exceptional measure to ensure the national security of our states.”
But he added: “At the same time, given the growing tensions in the world and the emergence of new threats and risks, our nuclear triad, as before, must serve as a reliable guarantor of the sovereignty of […] Russia and Belarus […]”
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