FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks after a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on April 12, 2021. Menahem Kahana/Pool via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States will ramp up its forces in Germany amid the latest tensions with Russia over Ukraine, abandoning former President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw around 12,000 of the 36,000 troops from the fellow NATO country.
"I briefed the minister on our intention to permanently stage an approximately 500 additional U.S. personnel in the Wiesbaden area as early as this fall," U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin told at press conference after meeting his German counterpart, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, in Berlin.
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