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US to deploy 1000 troops to Poland
http://www.dw.com/en/us-to-deploy-1000-troops-to-poland/a-37620011US to deploy 1000 troops to Poland
19.02.2017
A thousand US soldiers will head to Poland in late March, according to the US Army's European headquarters in Germany. The move is part of NATO's "Atlantic Resolve" mission opposed by Russia. The US Army's Europe headquarters located in Wiesbaden, Germany announced late Saturday that 1,000 US troops and their vehicles would be sent to northeastern Poland at the end of March.
The unit - part of 4,000 US troops being deployed in rotation along NATO's eastern flank under its "Atlantic Resolve" mission - will be located at Orzysz. The Polish town lies 137 kilometers (85 miles) from Kaliningrad, Russia's heavily armed Baltic military exclave.
Saturday's announcement, carried by the German DPA news agency, coincided with the Munich security conference where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused NATO of being a relic of the Cold War.
US Vice President Mike Pence sought to reassure Baltic and Black Sea nations, especially Ukraine, of continuing US support in the wake of Russia's seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014.
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