BNS REPORTS THAT the U.S. will deploy additional units with radars and air defense systems to Lithuania.
Some of the 3,500 US troops deployed on NATO’s eastern flank will be relocated to Lithuania.
It was also decided to deploy air and missile defense radars, short-range air defense systems, and self-propelled artillery guns in Lithuania.
The forces will be deployed as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine. The exact number of troops deployed and the countries in which they will appear are now being decided.
According to Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupšys, commander of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the American leadership “assures us that we are not alone, that we can contain and, in the worst-case scenario, defend our country.”
American units may appear in Marijampolė, Kozlu Ruda, and Pobrada, where a U.S. tank battalion has been on rotation since 2014.
Meanwhile, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia is still launching missile attacks on Ukrainian cities from the territory of Belarus.
belsat.eu
