BBC News - Royal Navy warship in Baltic Sea exercise amid Ukraine tension
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HMS Montrose, a Type 23 frigate, will take part in a two-week long security exercise which will begin on Monday.
Exercise Baltops, the largest multinational maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea this year, will test the maritime capabilities among Baltic sea countries and allied nations.
More than 100 British soldiers will also take part in live-fire training in Estonia and Latvia as part of exercise Sabre Strike, which began on Sunday.
They join personnel from the US, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Norway.
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Meanwhile, around 200 British infantry troops will take part in a live fire exercise in Poland in September, along with up to 7,000 personnel from the US and Canada.
It follows action already taken by the UK to reassure Nato’s Eastern European members, the MoD said.
In April, four RAF Typhoons helped to carry out Nato’s air policing role of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as part of a long-standing rotation.
And in May, British soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment joined 6,000 troops from Nato states in Estonia for a training exercise.