US ‘plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe’

The US plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior US official said on Saturday.

“We will pre-position significant equipment,” the official said, commenting on a New York Times report that the Pentagon was poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 troops.

The Polish defense ministry confirmed Warsaw was in talks with the US about stationing US army equipment warehouses in Poland.