More Troops Headed to Eastern Europe as Biden Says Russia Invasion of Ukraine Has Started
Russia has "undeniably" begun an invasion of Ukraine by declaring regions in its east independent and will now face billions of dollars in sanctions and additional U.S. troops deployed to the Baltic states, President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
An infantry battalion based in Italy, as well as F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets and Apache attack helicopters, will be moving to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and be in place later this week to defend the NATO alliance, the Biden administration said. Thousands of U.S. troops have already deployed to Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Germany.
The financial penalties and troop movements were the latest response from the U.S. and NATO allies after Russian President Vladimir Putin began moving troops into the two separatist regions where Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukraine's western-aligned central government for years.
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