Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda announced on Tuesday that a new rotation of US troops is already en route to Lithuania, thanking the Trump administration for the decision. A presidential adviser confirmed the incoming deployment would be at least as large as the previous one, following reports in June that around 1,000 US soldiers had withdrawn after their deployment ended. The move is seen as a significant reassurance for Lithuania (a NATO member bordering Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and Russian ally Belarus), where officials have warned of growing security threats including drone incursions, and whose foreign minister called the continued US presence "a powerful signal of Allied unity and resolve."