War games: Britain defies Putin with deployment of 900 troops along RUSSIAN border

The significant military build up along Poland’s frontier with the former Soviet nation is part of a planned Nato training exercise.

Around 900 UK personnel and 350 vehicles – part of the British Army’s Lead Armoured Battle Group – crossed Europe to take part in Exercise Dragon 15 on the plains of north east Poland, just 60 miles from the border with the Russian state of Kaliningrad Oblast.