This is a move which comes amongst a backdrop of tension between Western allies and Moscow, in the wake of Vladimir Putins decision to launch air-strikes in Syria.
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They were echoed by Britain’s ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Sir Adam Thomson, who said war games were on the agenda.
Portsmouth South Million pixels Flick Drummond approved.
Moscow is proceeding in a bilateral fashion with concerned parties, including NATO-member Turkey, he added. That’s something we have to keep a careful eye on, ‘ she said.
‘He has always been a big threat to the west, ‘ Mrs Drummond added. There have been major calls for Russian Federation to change its stance.
Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary-general, said today: “In Syria, we have seen a troubling escalation of Russian military activities”.
“The United Kingdom has a pivotal role to play in ensuring global security, and if we fail to defend our allies as well as ourselves, we risk encouraging adventurism and instability elsewhere in the world”.
Russian Federation is making a very serious situation in Syria much more unsafe, the Defence Secretary has said.
It feels a lot like that warm words of 2010 never happened, even if we’re not in a new Cold War we are definitely into a war of words backed up by military movements on the ground in Eastern Europe.
Anxiety over a possible conflict also came to a head this week when Russian Federation deployed troops to Syria, carried out air strikes before firing a salvo of cruise missiles from its warships in the Caspian Sea.
George Hollingbery, MP for Meon Valley, felt Mr Putin’s intervention was not helpful. “If so, that would indicate malfunctions of those missiles,” he said.
While those saw just words, Eastern Europe has seen a few action with the addition of British training troops to the Baltics, the creation of another two force-integration units, and the signing off of the military concept of NATO’s rapid response force.
Bradley armoured fighting vehicles and self-propelled howitzers, enough to arm one combat brigade, were to be positioned in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, under announcements made by US Defence Secretary Ash Carter in Talinn.
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Speaking of the Russian air strikes in Syria, Fareham MP Suella Fernandes said: ‘Russia should not be propping up Assad and it is unclear whether the right targets are actually being hit, with many civilians being hurt in the process.
