Biden Orders More US Troops to Eastern Europe as Russia Evacuates Embassy

U.S. Army troops of the 82nd Airborne Division unloading vehicles from a transport plane after arriving from Fort Bragg, at the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport in southeastern Poland, on Feb. 6, 2022. Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo

The Biden administration on Feb. 22 ordered more troops into Eastern Europe amid concern that Russia would invade Ukraine.

In a speech, President Joe Biden said he would send U.S. troops already based in Europe to the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as Poland.