British military personnel. File photoLONDON, Apr 29About 8,000 British troops will be deployed to Northern and Eastern Europe to participate in military exercises, Sky News reported. June. «This exercise will link up our troops with NATO allies and partners and the Joint Expeditionary Forces in a show of solidarity and strength in one of the largest joint maneuvers since the Cold War,» British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace was quoted as saying by TV channel. dozens of British tanks and more than 100 armored fighting vehicles will be deployed in countries from Finland to North Macedonia. The commander of the British ground forces, Lieutenant General Ralph Woodiss, called the main goal of the exercise «deterring Russian aggression.» launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
