Military exercise in eastern Europe

1

Airborne taskforce lands and simulates capturing territory before moving troops and equipment through a safe passage

 

2

2,000 parachutists including British troops land to practice securing terrain east of the Vistula

 

3

Engineers build a bridge over the Vistula. Troops and vehicles cross and travel to Lithuania for another exercise on 10 June

3

2

1

Vistula

river

Russia

Poland

Baltic Sea

Lithuania

Kaliningrad

(Russia)

Poznan

Gdansk

Warsaw

100 km

100 miles

1

Airborne taskforce lands and simulates capturing territory before moving troops and equipment through a safe passage

 

2

2,000 parachutists including British troops land to practice securing terrain east of the Vistula

 

3

Engineers build a bridge over the Vistula. Troops and vehicles cross and travel to Lithuania for another exercise on 10 June

3

2

1

Vistula river

Russia

Poland

Baltic Sea

Lithuania

Kaliningrad

(Russia)

Kraków

Wroclaw

Poznan

Gdansk

Germany

Berlin

Warsaw

100 km

100 miles