Face-to-face with Putin’s nukes: Britain to send 150 troops to Russia’s Kaliningrad border
BRITAIN is to send around 150 troops to Poland near the border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, where Vladimir Putin has stationed a nuclear-capable missile system.
By TOM BATCHELOR
Express.co.uk
Mon, Nov 28, 2016
Soldiers from the Light Dragoons regiment in Catterick, along with a number of armoured vehicles, will arrive in Orzysz in north-east Poland next year in a bid to underline London’s commitment to NATO.
British troops on the ground in Orzysz will come within 50 miles of Russia’s feared Iskander and S-400 long-range missile defence systems.
Iskander missiles are equipped to fire nuclear warheads and their deployment to Kaliningrad put swathes of Europe in the crosshairs of Moscow’s short-range ballistic missile programme.
With a range of roughly 300 miles, the missile can hit targets as far away as Berlin, Poland and Sweden with an atomic warhead.
But British troops would be based just a fraction of that distance away.
The S-400, dubbed the ‘Growler’ by NATO, is an anti-aircraft missile system that can cover short and long-range targets.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the deployment of British troops was “a glimpse of the future, of how we will be deepening our country-to-country relationships with key partners in Europe”.
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