The United States plans to reduce the number of troops stationed on NATO’s eastern flank as part of a global force reassessment, Romania’s defense ministry said on Oct. 29.
“The American decision is to cease the rotation of a brigade in Europe that had elements in several NATO countries,” the ministry said in a statement.
The change affects troops who were to be stationed at Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base and in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia, Romanian Defense Minister Ionut Mosteanu told reporters at a press conference.
The ministry said the decision was expected, given Washington’s shifting priorities, and that roughly 1,000 U.S. troops would remain stationed in Romania. It did not specify how many would be withdrawn….