‘You can feel Putin’s threat’: The British soldiers guarding Nato’s Russian border
‘You can feel Putin’s threat’: The British soldiers guarding Nato’s Russian border
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‘You can feel Putin’s threat’: The British soldiers guarding Nato’s Russian border
‘You can feel Putin’s threat’: The British soldiers guarding Nato’s Russian border
Posted by theipaper
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A bang rings out in a forest just 18 miles from the border with [Russia.](https://inews.co.uk/news/how-putins-violation-of-ukraine-ceasefire-shows-trump-has-failed-again-3650544?ico=in-line_link)
“IDF, IDF”, shouts a voice: “indirect fire” is raining down from the skies.
A [British soldier](https://inews.co.uk/news/war-drills-evenings-inside-uk-military-deployment-3649628?ico=in-line_link) carrying an assault rifle, with green and brown paint smeared on his face and camouflage from helmet to boots, drops suddenly to the ground.
Others scramble for shelter in a freshly dug trench or under the camouflage netting, which disguises the entrance to the hidden British command post. A tense silence falls.
“We either hear the whistle of the bombs or we hear them landing,” says Stuart McGregor, the colour sergeant of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, lying flat to avoid shrapnel.
“Because we have a bomb proof shelter, it won’t affect us as much. It would probably have hit me, because I’m outside,” he adds nonchalantly.
McGregor looks up. A small white [drone](https://inews.co.uk/news/how-ordinary-tv-phone-cables-changing-warfare-ukraine-3599724?srsltid=AfmBOoqNJ-OrM48EJE0NhC315YfjiRwzHiu8stqPG5DibwrGzbm7gR9o&ico=in-line_link) is circling overhead, scanning through the canvas of the trees to search for the soldiers hiding below.
“I don’t know at this stage if it’s an enemy or if it’s friendly,” he says. “If we don’t get under cover, in about five to 10 minutes we’ll probably have indirect fire on top of us again.”
Not sure the geopolitical relevance, The british have been playing the Great Game against Russia for decades now. Hell back in the Crimean War, they probably sat in London thinking they could feel the Russian threat from Crimea. Of course your gonna feel a threat when your stationed right next to a hostile nation’s border…..
“Drone warfare ‘absolutely game changing’ for UK”
It is interesting how will it change when proper anti drone weapons start to properly arrive… I think it will lessen the effect quite a bit.
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