🇬🇧⚡UK contribution to NATO uplift bolsters defences in eastern Europe

✅ The UK is doubling the number of personnel in Estonia and sending additional equipment, including tanks and armoured fighting vehicles. 

✅ The Royal Welsh battlegroup, which includes armoured vehicles and personnel, will leave Sennelager in Germany and bases in the UK and begin to arrive in Estonia during the this week.

✅ Apache helicopters will soon be making their way to conduct exercises with our Allies and partners in Eastern Europe.

✅ Four additional UK Typhoon jets have also landed in Cyprus and will shortly begin to patrol the skies with NATO Allies in Eastern Europe.

✅ HMS Trent – a UK Warship – has already begun conducting patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea alongside NATO Allies from Canada, Italy, Spain and Turkey.

✅ HMS Diamond is preparing to set sail in the coming days for the Eastern Mediterranean and will join up with NATO allies.

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The🇬🇧@3rdUKDivision, Royal Welsh battlegroup is moving through #Poland🇵🇱on its way to reinforce our Partner Nations in the Baltics.

@TheRoyalWelsh – on their way to strengthen the @NATO @RoyalTankRegt led eFP in #Estonia🇪🇪on Op IRON SURGE

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#5YearsAsOne
📽️Royal Welsh

🔗 HQ Multinational Corps Northeast (@hqmncne)

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👀 WATCH – Germany leads NATO operation in Lithuania, sends troops

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🔗 SOURCE YT

There's a powerful lobby pushing for a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine.

If Biden listens to them, he will start a shooting war with Russia.

This is not a drill. It's the closest we've been to World War 3 since the Cuban Missile Crisis. 🧵

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https://news.1rj.ru/str/TwitterInfos/4688

"Russia has completed all preparations for an invasion" - US official tells @barbarastarrcnn

🔗 Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1)

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🇵🇱 Polish Defense24 posted maps of potential Russian invasion scenarios.

🔗 Intelsky (@Intel\_sky)

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URGENT – 🇮🇹⚡Italian Eurofighters Deployed To Romania For NATO Air Policing Scrambled 14 Times In 2 Months

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In eastern Ukraine near Donetsk, we’ve heard a lot more tonight of what sounds like artillery in the distance. Heard it closer in the village of Taramchuk earlier today.

🔗 Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA)

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Russian armor coming from Belarus, they are creating a front from the North per CNN.

🔗 Global: MilitaryInfo (@Global\_Mil\_Info)

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Russian soldiers have raised the Russian flag over the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/milinfolive/76539

🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85)

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⚡️More than 100 Russian troops killed.

As of 2 p.m., the Ukrainian military destroyed 7 Russian planes, 4 helicopters, more than 10 armored vehicles, according to the Center for Defense Strategies.

Russia occupied Henichesk and Nova Kahovka cities in Kherson Oblast.

🔗 The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent)

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🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡A senior US military officer suggested that Russian troops are moving towards Kiev.

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RUSSIA – Ministry of Defense of Russia: the exit of Russian troops to Kherson is secured, the North Crimean Canal is unblocked, water supply to Crimea is restored

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The first video from the captured Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukraine's PM Shmyhal has confirmed that the exclusion zone and all the NPP facilities have come under the control of the Russian forces.

🔗 Tadeusz Giczan 🇺🇦 (@TadeuszGiczan)

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BREAKING – 57 Ukrainian military personnel and civilians have been confirmed killed from Russian invasion so far, Ukraine's Health Minister Viktor Lyashko says

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JUST IN – 🇺🇸⚡Biden: Our forces will not fight in Ukraine, but we will defend NATO members with all the power of the United States

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This is pure aggression, Putin's desire to create an empire - Biden

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NATO will continue to increase its presence on the eastern flag of the alliance, said the Secretary General Stoltenberg

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BREAKING – Biden: If Russia attacks any NATO country, going beyond Ukraine, the US will be ready to join the hostilities

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