Majority of Americans back sending more troops to NATO in Ukraine crisis: Reuters/Ipsos poll

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Army soldiers from B Company, of the Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade, wait in a staging area before boarding a transport plane bound for Europe on a deployment launched in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., March 11, 2022. REUTERS/Sam Wolfe/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan 55% of Americans support sending more U.S. troops to Washington's NATO allies in central and eastern Europe in response to Russia's five-week old invasion of Ukraine, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden has deployed thousands of additional troops to Europe to support North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies concerned by Moscow's war on its smaller neighbor.