Russian troops assembled along Ukraine’s border have not advanced on Kyiv. In October, Poland announced it would double its number of active duty forces to roughly 200,000 and increase its defense budget from 2.2 percent to 2.5 percent of its GDP. US Companies Warned to Prepare for Russian Cyber Attacksīiden Should Shift US Troop Positions Worldwideīlaszczak said the Abrams sale is part of Poland’s newly expanded homeland defense spending that will finance the modernization of Polish armed forces. “This is the most significant military mobilization in Europe since the Second World War.”īiden Says Russia Will Attack Within ‘Several Days ’ Blinken Lobbies For Peace at UN “This estimate includes military troops along the border, in Belarus, and in occupied Crimea Russian National Guard and other internal security units deployed to these areas and Russian-led forces in eastern Ukraine,” the OSCE said Friday in a statement. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said that Russia’s troops along the Ukrainian border had rapidly swelled to as many as 190,000 forces. The announcement comes as Mike Carpenter, U.S. “This is the most modern version of the Abrams and will provide Poland with a highly advanced tank capability that will also strengthen our interoperability with the Polish armed forces, boosting the credibility of our combined deterrence efforts in those of other NATO allies,” Austin said.

50-caliber machine guns, and thousands of rounds of explosive tracers. Beyond the tanks, the contract includes the sale of 250 counter-IED systems, 26 M88 combat recovery vehicles, 17 joint assault bridges, 276 M2. and NATO officials have said could be used as a pretext for a larger Russian attack.Īustin announced the $6 billion contract during a stop in Warsaw to meet with Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak. Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces have exchanged intensified shelling over the last two days in Eastern Ukraine, which U.S. officials continue to warn that an attack against Ukraine is imminent. will sell 250 M1A2 Abrams tanks to Poland to further build up defense capabilities along NATO’s eastern flank with Russia as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Friday that the U.S.

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