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About 8,000 British troops will take part in planned exercises across Eastern Europe in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine, in what promises to be one of the largest deployments since the Cold War.
Dozens of tanks will be deployed from now until summer in Eastern European countries, from Finland to northern Macedonia, according to plans developed after Russia's occupation of Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of soldiers from NATO and the Joint Expeditionary Force alliance, which includes Finland and Sweden, will join the exercise.
The UK commitment is expected to reach around 8,000 units which will be relocated to the European continent from now until June.