{"id":300278,"date":"2017-03-23T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-tanks-arrive-in-estonia-joining-nato-troops-to-deter-russian-aggression\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:35:09","slug":"uk-tanks-arrive-in-estonia-joining-nato-troops-to-deter-russian-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-tanks-arrive-in-estonia-joining-nato-troops-to-deter-russian-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"UK tanks arrive in Estonia, joining NATO troops to deter \u2018Russian aggression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The first group of British tanks and armored vehicles has arrived in Estonia, part of a broad military deployment by the NATO military alliance to Eastern Europe to deter \u201cRussian aggression.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The armored convoy of 130 units, including Challenger 2 tanks and self-propelled guns, disembarked at the Paldiski seaport in northern Estonia on Wednesday and was slated to join the 200 British troops and 50 French soldiers earlier deployed to the town of Tapa.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis is the start of one of the biggest deployment in Eastern Europe since the Cold War and by the end of next month, we will have 800 British troops, with armor, with tanks, ready to help reassure our allies and to underline our commitment to the security of Europe,\u201d British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritish troops are playing a leading role in Estonia and supporting our US allies in Poland, as part of wider efforts to defend NATO,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Britain&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/23\/515327\/UK-NATO-Estonia-Russia-tank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first group of British tanks and armored vehicles has arrived in Estonia, part of a broad military deployment by the NATO military alliance to Eastern Europe to deter \u201cRussian aggression.\u201d The armored convoy of 130 units, including Challenger 2 tanks and self-propelled guns, disembarked at the Paldiski seaport in northern Estonia on Wednesday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}