The first US troops have arrived in Latvia, which shares a border directly with Russia, as reinforces its eastern flank after ordered an invasion of Ukraine.Early on Thursday, a small force of 40 troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, known as the Sky Soldiers, arrived in Latvia from their home base in , the US Embassy in Riga confirmed.The deployment is part of a movement of 800 US troops and equipment into the Baltics -- the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which are all now part of the NATO alliance.
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