UK troops to come to Poland for NATO exercise

The United Kingdom is planning an exercise, dubbed “Black Eagle,” to be carried out in Poland over the next few months, Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said after a meeting with UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon. Fallon said that 350 British military vehicles and 1,300 soldiers would take part in the exercise. The meeting, which accompanied talks with foreign affairs ministers of both countries, focused around the situation in Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Wales. Siemionak said he repeated Poland’s stance about increasing NATO presence in its Eastern European member countries.