{"id":1243545,"date":"2025-10-29T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1243545"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:40:15","slug":"nato-responds-to-u-s-plans-to-reduce-troop-presence-on-europe-s-eastern-flank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/nato-responds-to-u-s-plans-to-reduce-troop-presence-on-europe-s-eastern-flank\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Responds to U.S. Plans to Reduce Troop Presence on Europe\u2019s Eastern Flank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NATO and U.S. authorities are in close contact<\/strong> regarding force deployment after Romania\u2019s Defense Ministry announced that allies had been informed of <strong>Washington\u2019s plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops stationed on NATO\u2019s eastern flank<\/strong>, Reuters reports, citing a NATO official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cNATO and U.S. authorities are in close contact regarding our overall force posture to ensure that NATO maintains its strong ability to deter and defend. The U.S. authorities informed NATO in advance about this adjustment,\u201d the official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that <strong>adjustments in U.S. force numbers are not unusual<\/strong>, adding that <strong>even with this change, the U.S. military presence in Europe remains larger than it has been for many years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Romania\u2019s Defense Ministry confirmed that several NATO allies had been notified of U.S. plans to <strong>scale down forces stationed on the eastern flank<\/strong>, including those at the <strong>Mihail Kog\u0103lniceanu Air Base<\/strong> in Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz<\/strong> stated that <strong>Warsaw had not received any information from Washington<\/strong> regarding a possible reduction of U.S. troops in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO and U.S. authorities are in close contact regarding force deployment after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1243546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1243545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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