The Pentagon will send some 7,000 additional troops to Germany in response to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, a senior US official in Washington announced Thursday.
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The objective of this new deployment, which will take place in the coming days, is to "
reassure the NATO allies, deter a Russian attack and be ready to support the needs in the region
", specified this official.
These American soldiers are in addition to the 5,000 soldiers already sent by President Joe Biden to Germany and to the eastern flank of NATO.
In addition, Washington has repositioned a thousand soldiers in the Baltic countries and in Romania, which fear that the conflict will spread to their borders.
With the reinforcements announced Thursday, the United States will have more than 90,000 soldiers in Europe.