2nd Battalion

Description: 2nd Battalion,

Snipers, tanks and wolves – UK troops on NATO border. There are 150 troops from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment currently based near Ełk, northern Poland, which is about 40 miles south of the Russian border and 160 miles north of Ukraine.

They have been deployed there from Kendrew Barracks, near Cottesmore in Rutland, for six months as a show of strength to prevent the conflict spreading from neighbouring Ukraine and respond if it does.