"The US administration will send an extra 3,000 troops to Poland in response to the tense situation in Ukraine," Mariusz Błaszczak said in a tweet.
"I spoke to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about this today," he added.
"We are ready to receive the soldiers at any time," he also tweeted.
His message came after the Reuters news agency reported minutes earlier that the Biden administration would send 3,000 additional troops to Poland in the coming days to reassure NATO allies amid fears of Russian aggression.
Reuters cited four US officials it did not name as saying that the US troop deployment would come from the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in response to allies' concerns over joint Russian and Belarusian military exercises near NATO's eastern border and separate Russian drills in the Black Sea.
The soldiers are expected to be in Poland by next week, Reuters reported.
Earlier on Friday, transatlantic leaders including Polish President Andrzej Duda held a video call with Biden to discuss the Ukraine crisis.
In recent days, multiple planes carrying US troops and army equipment have landed in Poland as part of efforts to bolster NATO's eastern flank and reinforce allies in Eastern Europe amid a Russian military buildup near Ukraine.
A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet carrying a group of US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division lands at Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland on Sunday, February 6. Photo: PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
The Pentagon announced at the start of this month that the United States would send 1,700 extra troops to Poland and around 1,000 to Romania to reassure its Eastern European NATO allies in the face of the Russian buildup.
'Very troubling signs of Russian escalation'
Washington warned on Friday that Russia was massing yet more troops near Ukraine and that an invasion could come at any time, perhaps before the end of this month's Winter Olympics, according to Reuters.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the media that there "very troubling signs of Russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border."
He said: "We're in a window when an invasion could begin at any time, and to be clear, that includes during the Olympics."
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games end on February 20.
Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and then fomented a separatist conflict in that country's eastern Donbas region, leading to a wave of EU and US sanctions against Moscow and Russian officials.
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Source: PAP, Reuters