US military equipment sails into Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
30.03.2017 14:51
US military equipment has arrived in the port of Gdańsk in northern Poland as part of a NATO mission to strengthen its eastern flank.
Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa
The equipment arrived aboard an American vehicle-carrier ship on Tuesday and has been unloading since Wednesday.
US General Duane Gamble of the 21st Operations Support Command told reporters that about 300 different types of vehicles and equipment, as well as 900 soldiers, arrived in Gdańsk.
Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa
The equipment will be driven to various target units in the region.
Four 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.
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.
Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa
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. (rg)