SOFIA (Reuters) – The United States has agreed to provide a Stryker mechanized infantry company for Bulgaria’s battlegroup below NATO’s drive to bolster its jap flank after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov mentioned on Saturday.
“The USA agreed to provide a Stryker company,” he informed a press convention with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “This is a robust signal to all of our allies in NATO.”
Bulgaria is establishing a battlegroup of up to 1,000 troops below the operational command of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe. The battlegroup is predicted to host troops from different allied international locations as properly.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova, Writing by Michael Kahn, Editing by Mark Heinrich)
