The contingent is tasked with border building and reinforcement, observation and gathering of audio-visual material. The EDF task force consists of an engineer platoon, two camera teams, a reconnaissance team and a national support element, and is manned by 74 active-duty and reserve troops and civil servants. The task force will operate in the border region of Lublin Voivodeship in close cooperation with the Polish 18th Mechanized Division until the end of the year. It is our shared responsibility to support Poland in their defense against this hybrid attack," said commander of the Estonian contingent Lt. "Poland is our close ally and their border with Belarus is also our common European Union and NATO border. "On Friday, an Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) task force arrived in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, to support the Polish Armed Forces in their ongoing border crisis with Belarus. PS: if this needs moving to the other thread, go ahead Whether this will be that distraction, I truly don’t know. Things aren’t great at home so they need a distraction. He has well and truly fucked up and now that we’re facing the possibility of another covid wave and potentially another winter lockdown, people aren’t happy. Truthfully I think he’s only doing it to try and distract from how badly his government has handled COVID-19 and Brexit. We do not have the ability or influence to project power the way we are trying to do. It’s all very bold and brash but I think Johnson needs to realise the empire is dead, as is its army. Sending a ship through Russian waters and provoking a response, stationing an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, sending troops to Poland and allegedly putting SOF on standby for Ukraine, etc etc. I keep feeling as if this government is nostalgic for a bygone era, when Britain was a world power. It would also be a good sign for the Russians – that you are here.” – should be flying around these territories. Three flags – the flag of Canada, the flag of United States and the flag of U.K. “Together with United Kingdom guys, with United States guys, in bilateral platforms, without NATO. “It would be nice if the Canadian instructors … would be deployed in Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Odessa, and Zminiy Island,” he said, naming locations in eastern and southern Ukraine that could rapidly become frontline positions in the event of a large-scale Russian assault. Those troops should be deployed to places where Russia can see them, Mr. Operation Unifier, as it’s known, is headquartered in Yavoriv, in the far west of Ukraine, more than 1,000 kilometres from the Russian border. Instead of having 50 instructors, send 500 instructors,” he said, referring to the 200-soldier Canadian training mission already deployed to the country. “You have a training program with us in Ukraine. and British soldiers visibly deployed to positions near the frontline. But just as important, he said, would be Canadian, U.S. Ukraine, he said, needed a “quick response” from its allies that would help it address a lack of anti-aircraft missiles, modern warplanes and naval craft, as well as electronic jamming equipment.
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