Kosiniak-Kamysz, who also serves as deputy prime minister, said he had been told of the move by the US deputy ambassador to Poland, Stephanie Holmes, and the American military attaché, thanking Washington for what he called "an extremely positive signal."
Speaking at a ceremony in Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, he said the rotation – suspended a few weeks earlier – would now go ahead and be completed in the near future, adding that it reflected deepening Polish-American cooperation on security and defence industry.
Polish daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (DGP) reported on Monday that additional American troops will arrive in Poland within the next three months.
The rotation had been thrown into doubt in early May, when the Pentagon announced it was pulling 5,000 troops out of Germany.
That same month, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth cancelled plans to rotate 4,000 American soldiers into Poland, part of a broader move to scale back the US military footprint in Europe.
Days later, however, President Donald Trump said he would send an extra 5,000 troops to Poland instead, citing his relationship with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.
In mid-June, Hegseth announced a review of US forces and bases across Europe, expected to last up to six months.
He linked it to a plan – dubbed "NATO 3.0" – under which Europe would take the lead on its own conventional defence.
A permanent US military presence in Poland is also under discussion.
Marcin Przydacz, head of the Polish president's international policy office, has said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told him he was "absolutely in favour" of shifting the American presence from rotational to permanent.
Przydacz added that Rubio had confirmed Trump's pledge of an extra 5,000 troops, though he suggested this likely meant 5,000 in place of the paused 4,000-strong armoured brigade rotation, rather than on top of it.
Around 10,000 US troops are currently stationed in Poland, most on a rotational basis.
The main US installations are the Fifth Army Corps' forward headquarters at Camp Kościuszko in Poznań, western Poland, and the US Army Garrison, in the same city, which handles administrative and logistical support.
The minister's comments came as Poland's state-owned defence group PGZ signed a deal with US firm Anduril Industries to develop production of low-cost cruise missiles in Poland, at a ceremony in Bydgoszcz also attended by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
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Source: PAP