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Russian naval aggression prompts new defensive initiative with ‘beer-drinking nations’
New alliance with the Netherlands and Baltic and Nordic countries comes in response to 41% increase in Russian naval activity around UK Russian naval activity around the UK has increased by 41% in the first nine months of the year, a British defence minister has said, as the Royal Navy announced plans to step up a 10-country maritime defensive effort in response. Luke Pollard, the minister for defence readiness, described the figure as “a huge increase”, justifying a new drone and warship initi…
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