The United States will likely move troops to Poland from other bases in Europe, President Donald Trump said Monday as he signed a defense deal with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, Deutsche Welle reports.
Meeting on the sidelines of the US General Assembly in New York, the two leaders signed a Joint Declaration on Advancing Defense Cooperation that builds on a framework deal reached in June.
The United States currently has 4,500 rotational troops in Poland. That number is "expected to grow by approximately 1,000 additional United States military personnel in the near term," according to the joint declaration.
Trump said the new troops would "most likely" be transferred from other European bases.
The United States has about 35,000 troops stationed in Germany. In June, Trump suggested additional soldiers to Poland could be pulled from Germany, which the president has repeatedly criticized over NATO defense spending targets.