UK TROOPS ARRIVE IN ESTONIA
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Hundred twenty UK soldiers from 5 th Battalion The Rifles arrived in Estonia on Saturday 18 March 2017. They are the first of 800 UK soldiers to be deployed in a new NATO deployment. French soldiers and vehicles will follow in the coming weeks.
NATO’s “enhanced Forward Presence” will see four new deployments that bring multinational battalion-sized battlegroups into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to respond to changing security environments in the eastern part of the Alliance, as agreed at the NATO Summit in Warsaw in 2016.
