According to The Independent, NATO troops are actively storming the "Russian" positions during the Union's military exercises.
Apache helicopters are flying to support land troops that actively storm the fortified trenches that mimic Russian positions. During a fierce melee, NATO soldiers cleaned a series of fortified trenches and repelled the counter -counter -attacks.
According to The Independent, in Estonia, the North Atlantic Alliance forces under the Swift Respense mission under the leadership of the United Kingdom has been participating in NATO's largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War Steadfast Defender, which has been passing from Baltic countries to Balkan. Estonia calls the publication "the first volley" of what a modern conflict between the great powers would look like if it began on the Eastern Flanging of NATO.
At the Nurmsi airfield, two hours to ride a tank from the Russian border, the commander of the operational deployment of British troops in Estonia Bragadny General Gilas Harris has no doubt about the need to fight the "obvious and real threat" from Russia.
"If necessary, we are ready to protect every heel of Estonian land. In the minds of soldiers, the strategic goal and context in which we conduct these training are certainly changed. The fact that we carry them so close to Russia, explains why it is so important to stay here," Harris said.
According to the British military, they analyze hostilities in Ukraine and use them to calibrate maneuvers, ranging from numerous ways of using unmanned aerial vehicles and ending with the opposition of massive offensive.