Britai nuosekliai ruošiasi karui su Rusija dėl Ukrainos
Added 2021-11-26 07:04:11 +0000 UTCThe British army is to base hundreds of armoured vehicles in Germany, just over a year after marking its official withdrawal from the country, in a move designed to help bolster Nato as tensions with Moscow over Ukraine remain high.
Under plans described as a “radical” restructuring of British land forces, the UK government announced on Thursday that a Nato base at Sennelager, near the German city of Paderborn, would become one of three new “regional land hubs” for the British army, alongside Oman and Kenya.
The move represents a U-turn just over a year after the UK ended a permanent military presence on German soil that had been maintained since the end of the second world war. The closure of the last British army military headquarters in Bielefeld last February was the culmination of a decade-long withdrawal of 20,000 British service personnel from the country.
“We are putting a substantial number of our armoured vehicles forward in order to be able to move more quickly should they be required anywhere on the continental [European] land mass,” Lieutenant General Ralph Wooddisse, commander field army, said. One government official would not be drawn on exact numbers but said the plans envisaged basing “hundreds” of tanks and armoured vehicles at Sennelager. https://www.ft.com/content/1c56235e-dcc6-4505-851c-8e904b46339b
