The Defence Secretary spoke to GB News
Grant Shapps discusses the “biggest deployment of troops to Nato for 40 years”.
The Defence Secretary spoke to GB News as the UK prepares to send 20,000 troops in one of Nato’s largest military exercises since the Cold War.
The alliance is practicing repelling an invasion by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces.
“This is a an operation which is designed to essentially allow NATO to test our approach in what is a much more dangerous world given the conflicts in Europe, the conflicts in the Middle East, but also the sort of intent of people like Putin to really disrupt the world order on our way of life”, Shapps told Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster.
Some 16,000 troops with tanks, artillery and helicopters will be deployed from the British Army across eastern Europe starting next month as part of the exercise.
The Royal Navy will deploy more than 2,000 sailors across eight warships and submarines, while more than 400 Royal Marines Commandos will be sent to the Arctic Circle.
