The U.K. is expected to bolster its offer to NATO with a major military deployment to strengthen Europe’s borders amid rising Russian aggression.
"This package would send a clear message to the Kremlin – we will not tolerate their destabilizing activity, and we will always stand with our NATO allies in the face of Russian hostility," U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote in a Sunday evening statement.
The U.K. currently has more than 900 British military personnel based in Estonia, more than 100 troops in Ukraine and approximately 150 soldiers in Poland. Last week, the U.S. Pentagon placed 8,500 U.S. servicemembers on"heightened alert" to deploy to Europe should NATO activate a response force. The troops represent America's contribution to the 40,000-strong NATO Response Force, or NRF, whose activation requires approval of all 30 NATO members.
For months, the West has watched a steady build-up of Kremlin forces along Ukraine's border with Russia and Belarus. The increased military presence mimics Russian moves ahead of its 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea, which sparked an international uproar and triggered a series of sanctions against Moscow.
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