The United States will send an additional 3,000 troops to Poland in the coming days, the agency announced on Friday, February 11 Reuters with reference to sources.
The Pentagon intends to “calm down NATO allies” who fear Russian military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea by sending 3,000 more troops to Poland. Officials have said anonymously that additional troops will be detached from the 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and will arrive in Poland next week.
One official whistleblower described it as a “significant deployment”. Another source assured that the order for the deployment of an additional military group was signed by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the direction of President Joe Biden.
On the same day, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that no such decision had been made.
“Bringing additional forces on high alert in case such a decision is made by NATO, the president could discuss today with the secretary general of the alliance. No decision has been made in this regard, but the force remains on high alert in the event of a NATO request,” Sullivan said on briefing.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called what was happening “the hysteria of the White House.” In her opinion, the “skating rink of the American military-political machine” is ready to go through people’s lives again.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday evening also presented a compilation of disinformation materials in the Western media, which indicates a large-scale information attack against Russia. The agency noted the interaction of the media and the authorities of Western countries as part of the dissemination of information about the so-called “Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
In a number of Western media, information about the alleged plans of the Russian invasion of Ukraine regularly appears. On December 4, the American newspaper The Washington Post, citing officials in the US administration, reported that Russia allegedly intends to invade Ukraine early next year, using “up to 175,000 troops.”
In December, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin sees the West’s clearly aggressive rhetoric on Ukraine and media stuffing about Russia’s allegedly planned invasion of this country. He added that tensions can be removed only by receiving a guarantee that Kiev has abandoned a possible solution to the Donbas problem by force.
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