The United States is sending another 500 troops to Europe to boost NATO security. This was announced by a high-ranking American official to AFP. Earlier, the Pentagon announced that all available Russian troops are located on the border with Ukraine.
A senior U.S. defense official has warned that Russian strikes on civilians are on the rise and that Moscow is seeking to recruit foreign fighters, especially Syrians, for the war.
USA: Putin has deployed almost 100% of the forces he has gathered near the borders in Ukraine
The United States has already sent 12,000 more troops to Europe this year. At the moment, President Joe Biden’s position that US troops should not intervene in the conflict remains unchanged.
Over the weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered an additional “500 US troops to deploy in Europe” to increase existing forces. They will be deployed to respond to the current security environment in the light of Russia’s renewed aggression against Ukraine and to strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defense capabilities. “
The US Department of Defense estimates that “Putin has invested almost 100 percent of his military power in Ukraine, which is about 150,000 troops,” the official said.
A convoy of American infantry fighting vehicles moved from Novo Selo to Greece
According to the United States, Ukrainians’ resistance to Russia is the reason for Moscow’s aggression, which is engaged in more distant attacks – a combination of bombing, missiles, artillery strikes and more than 625 missile targets to compensate for the lack of ground movement.
“The bombings have intensified around the capital Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv in the north and Nikolaev and Mariupol in the south, and we believe that these strikes are deliberately aimed at civilian targets, civilian infrastructure, residential areas,” he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow was “preparing to bomb Odessa”, but the Pentagon denied “seeing any evidence of movement around Odessa”.
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