Royal Navy ships, British Army troops, and Royal Air force fighters are entered on new sites in eastern Europe to strengthen NATO’s eastern front.
HMS Trent was deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, performing NATO exercises with Merlin Helicopters and RAF P8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft. They arrived at the frontier and were joined by HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer, which arrived sailing from Portsmouth yesterday.
Challenger 2 tanks and armoured vehicles of the Royal Welsh battlegroup have also reached Estonia from Germany, with additional equipment and around 1000 troops reaching in the future. This will lead to a situation of doubling the UK army in Estonia, where the UK leads a NATO battlegroup as part of the Alliance’s improved Forward Presence.
Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace MP announced that “Our armed troops are once again being ordered upon in the service of our Nation and I honour the bravery and sense of duty conveyed by all our personnel who have been deployed to aid NATO.
“Alongside our NATO Allies, these deployments include a credible hindrance to ending Russian aggression intimidating the territorial sovereignty of member states.”
UK @RoyalNavy, @BritishArmy and @RoyalAirForce deploy to bolster @NATO's eastern front.
✅ HMS Diamond to join HMS Trent
✅ Challenger 2 tanks arrive in 🇪🇪
✅ RAF Typhoon jets completing air policing missionsRead more: https://t.co/PTwYWP5OUb and https://t.co/twB9hFmXpO pic.twitter.com/npLIPInC6K
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) February 26, 2022
NATO Allies are joined in reply to Russia’s unprovoked incursion of Ukraine and are taking a range of standards to safeguard their security and deter further invasion. At a meeting of NATO Heads of State and government yesterday (25 February), all 30 member nations decided that they will make all deployments essentially wishing to ensure strong and credible deterrence and defence across the Alliance, now and in the future. Their measures are and continue to be preventive, proportional and non-escalator.
