Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin deployed thousands of additional troops to Europe while the Biden administration has upped the urgency of their calls for Americans to leave Ukraine.

The remaining 3,000 soldiers within the 82nd Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, will be sent to Poland, a senior defense official said in a statement to reporters Friday afternoon. The troops will leave in the next couple of days and will be in place “by early next week.”