The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced that the UK will shortly complete the delivery of approximately 1,000 additional surface to air missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This comes in response to Ukrainian requests for more air defence capabilities, and the missiles will play a vital role in the ...
The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Ministers gathered in Helsinki, Finland to set the roadmap from which the JEF’s 10 northern European nations will evolve to tackle shared threats. The JEF is a multinational force made up of 10 like-minded, northern European nations; the UK – as Framework Nation – together with ...
Iceland has formally joined the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), the group of 10 northern European nations committed to upholding northern European security. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Iceland’s Ambassador to the UK Sturla Sigurjónsson signed a Note of Joining that welcomes Iceland into the JEF alongside the UK, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, ...
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has spoken about European Security whilst visiting personnel deployed in the Baltic. Penny Mordaunt travelled to NATO HQ in Brussels for the first time to discuss European Security and Operation Baltic protector. This was followed by a visit to Lithuania to visit those deployed on Baltic Protector, ...