UK forces arrive to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank

‘Challenger 2 tanks and armoured vehicles of the Royal Welsh battlegroup have arrived in Estonia’ with further equipment and around 1000 troops on the way. ‘HMS Trent is in the eastern Mediterranean, conducting NATO exercises with Merlin Helicopters and RAF P8 Poseidon MPA,’ HMS Diamond will join shortly. Four additional Typhoons have begun ‘patrolling NATO airspace over Romania and Poland alongside NATO allies,’ supported by Voyager aircraft, the MoD have announced.