They are expected to arrive in Poland early next week.

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.

On February 7, another group of servicemen of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Armed Forces arrived in Poland.

In turn, US President Joe Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that the US military in Europe would not "fight" with Russia.