U.S. troop deployments to Romania are being scaled back as part of a Pentagon plan to reduce force levels in Europe, the Romanian defense ministry said Wednesday. The plan calls for ending the rotation of a U.S. Army brigade to Romania that also had elements dispersed across several other countries in the Black Sea region, the ministry said in a statement. “The resizing of U.S. forces is an effect of the new priorities of the presidential administration, announced as early as February,” according to the statement, which added that the decision had been expected. The U.S. began rotating a brigade to Romania in the aftermath of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The increased troop presence in Romania and other parts of the eastern flank was intended to reassure allies unsettled by Russian aggression in Europe and deter Moscow from potentially making a move on NATO territory.
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