US Military Descends On Poland Amid NATO-Russia Tensions
American tanks and 3,000 personnel have begun arriving in Poland.
It's the biggest US deployment of its kind in Europe since the Cold War.
The move comes amid growing tensions between NATO and Russia.
It's part of a larger commitment by President Barack Obama to protect a region that grew deeply nervous when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and then began backing separatist rebels in Ukraine's east.
Poland and the Baltic states also feel threatened by Russia's recent deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania.
But Russia says it is the one who is threatened. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:
"These actions threaten our interests, our security."
"Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders. It's not even a European state."
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