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.

The group is part of an international contingent training together, working on deterrents and protecting Poland’s frontier with Russia and Belarus.
The Anglians are an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance group that push out ahead of other troops to find enemy positions.






