British troops have arrived in Hungary – PHOTOS
Steadfast Dart 2025, NATO’s principal exercise this year, demonstrates the alliance’s capability of tackling the crisis situation in the eastern region and the collaboration of member states, a senior army official said at a Hungarian military base on Tuesday. The British troops participating on the drill are already in Hungary.
“The help with logistics and national support is as much a part of the NATO exercise as the execution of its tasks,” Colonel Attila Csurgó, the commander of a technical regiment of the armed forces said in Szentes, in south-eastern Hungary.
The British troops that are on their way to Romania to participate in the exercise had made a stopover before at the army base in Pápa, in north-western Hungary and arrived in Szentes during the night carrying their equipment, said Csurgó.
“There are currently 120-140 British soldiers staying here at the base and there will be more of them arriving here during the night.”
According to a statement by the defence ministry, some 10,000 troops from nine NATO countries will participate at the Steadfast Dart 2025 exercise which will be held in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania between February 7-21.
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