- Title: British Prime Minister jokes with British NATO troops in Warsaw
- Date: 10th February 2022
- Summary: WARSAW, POLAND (FEBRUARY 10, 2022) (Reuters) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON WALKING WITH POLISH PRIME MINISTER MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI JOHNSON AND MORAWIECKI TALKING WITH TROOPS VARIOUS OF NATO TROOPS JOHNSON AND MORAWIECKI WALKING (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON TALKING TO SOLDIER: "How are you doing? How are you today? How are you? So you've b
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- Keywords: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson British troops in Poland NATO Poland Russia Ukraine United Kingdom Warsaw troops
- Location: WARSAW, POLAND
- City: WARSAW, POLAND
- Country: Poland
- Topics: Europe,NATO,Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
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- Story Text:British prime minister Boris Johnson visited NATO troops in Warsaw on Thursday (February 10), as reinforcements continue to be brought it to shield NATO's eastern flank from potential spillover from the Ukraine crisis.
Greeting the soldiers together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Johnson chatted and joked with the British soldiers at the headquarters of the 1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade.
More British soldiers landed in Warsaw on Thursday, part of a further 350 troops to Poland, after it sent 100 troops last year to help with a migrant crisis at its border with Belarus.
Johnson's visit is part of a diplomatic trip of Johnson amid tensions over the security situation in Ukraine. Johnson also meet with Polish president Andrzej Duda and NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday.
Britain has also ordered 1,000 troops to be on a state of readiness to provide support in the event of a humanitarian crisis caused by any Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Russia, which has more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders, denies Western accusations that it may be planning to invade its former Soviet neighbour though it says it could take unspecified "military-technical" action unless demands are met.
Putin, who says that Moscow's concerns over NATO enlargement have been ignored for three decades, has demanded guarantees that there will be no missile deployments near its borders and no further enlargement of NATO.
Britain has backed a strong line that Russia should not be able to veto countries choosing to join the Western alliance.
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