A defense official confirmed to the Military Times on Thursday that US soldiers in Ukraine would be earning hazard pay, per a new authorization from the Pentagon. This despite the fact that President Joe Biden, Commander-in-chief of the US Armed Forces, has said that there would be no troops fighting on the ground in Ukraine.
In a 2022 speech, Biden said that deploying US troops to fight in Ukraine would be akin to launching World War III, as that would bring the nation into direct conflict with Russia. Biden gave a speech in March 2022 in which he promised that “our forces are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine.”
“Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine, but to defend our NATO Allies – in the event that Putin decides to keep moving west,” he said.
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