NATO troops meet residents in south-western Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
27.03.2017 12:38
A NATO multinational battalion battle group met residents of the south-western Polish city of Wrocław on Monday during a picnic and a show of military equipment.
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The picnic in Wrocław is the first of three planned meetings with Poles in different cities across the country. The other two will be held in Piotrków Trybunalski, near Łódź, central Poland, and then in Warsaw.
The battalion, comprising troops from the United States, Britain, Romania and Poland, stopped to meet locals en-route to its destination, a military base in Orzysz, north-eastern Poland.
Four such battalions will be stationed on NATO's eastern flank, including Poland, under a decision taken at a 2016 NATO summit in Warsaw amid fears of Russian aggression following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014.
Meanwhile, in mid-January a brigade of some 3,500 US soldiers and over 1,000 vehicles, including Abrams tanks, Bradley military vehicles, and Paladin self-propelled howitzers arrived in Poland.
The decision to station the brigade in Poland was made separately to NATO's decision last July to deploy four rotating multinational battalions of some 1,000 soldiers each to the military alliance’s eastern flank.
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Source: PAP