NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed an abrupt announcement by President Donald Trump to send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland even as the alliance’s top envoys braced for cuts in US military resources.

Trump says 5,000 U.S. troops will head for Poland, a week after the White House said a planned deployment of 4,000 was being nixed.

NATO allies and defense officials are bewildered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland

Foreign ministers attending a NATO meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, reacted Friday to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland.

NATO leaders relieved after Trump announces troops to Poland

U.S. President Donald Trump surprised NATO allies by pledging to send an additional 5,000 troops to ‌Poland, only hours before the alliance's foreign ministers met in Sweden on Friday amid deep divisions over the Iran war.

President Donald Trump said he would send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, reversing course on a plan to suspend an Army deployment to the country amid a feud with other NATO nations over what he saw as their refusal to help in the Iran war.

Nato allies and defence officials have expressed bewilderment at President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 US troops to Poland just weeks after he ordered the same number of forces to be pulled out of Europe.