“Approximately two-thirds of the military personnel from the first tranche have already arrived,” RIA Novosti quotes the representative.

It is noted that the command is carried out by Major General Christopher Donahue.

The head of the Polish defense department, Mariusz Blaszczak, said earlier that additional US forces would be deployed in southeastern Poland near the Ukrainian border.

Prior to this, it became known that US military transport aircraft began the transfer of additional US troops to Europe.