Currently, 830 British soldiers are stationed in Estonia as part of the NATO mission, and another 140 in Poland.
If Russian troops are to be deployed alongside the borders of NATO’s Eastern European member states, additional units could be deployed there, the newspaper quoted the source as saying.
Appropriately The Times According to the training mission in Ukraine, there are currently around 100 British troops. Another 30 were recently sent to train Ukrainian soldiers to operate anti-tank missiles sent by London to Kiev.
At the same time, British Defense Secretary Lisa Trass has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that he risks making a “huge strategic mistake”.
“The Kremlin has not learned the lessons of history. The invasion will plunge into a terrible swamp and lead to the loss of lives, comparable only to what we experienced in the Soviet-Afghan war and the Chechen conflict,” the minister said during a visit to Australia.
Russia has concentrated a troop of 100,000 men on Ukraine’s borders, raising concerns about a new invasion of a neighboring country.
In December, Moscow issued an ultimatum to the West demanding a halt to NATO’s further expansion to the east and the dismantling of the Alliance’s infrastructure in the so-called new member states, restoring the status quo on 27 May 1997, before NATO’s first enlargement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened that if Moscow does not receive the “security guarantees” he has demanded, he will have to take “military technical measures”.
The United States and other NATO members have stated that these demands are unacceptable and not even negotiable, but have shown readiness to talk about arms control, missile deployment and confidence-building measures.
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