Britain is sending 1,000 troops to eastern Europe to prove to Russia that Nato is “not flaky”, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.
The commitment came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson flies to Brussels today (Thursday) to meet Nato's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg..
Mr Wallace told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme of the troop deployment: “What this is really about is saying to President Putin, ‘Nato is not flaky. Nato will stand by its members, big or small’.”
