The United Kingdom will offer a major NATO deployment in the midst of the Ukraine crisis NATO news

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the move will send a “clear message” to Vladimir Putin as Russian troops gather on the Ukrainian border.

The United Kingdom is considering a major NATO deployment in a plan to strengthen Europe’s borders as Russia’s “hostility to Russia” escalates after Moscow sent ten thousand troops to the country’s border.

The United Kingdom has said that any sanctions imposed on Russia by Ukraine would be carried out quickly and would be devastating for both sides.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit the region next week, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is also expected to speak by telephone.

“This package would send a clear message to the Kremlin: we will not accept their destabilizing activity, and we will always be with NATO allies in the face of Russian hostility,” Johnson said Saturday night.

The offer could double the number of troops in the UK in Eastern Europe and send “weapons of defense” to Estonia, Johnson’s office said. There are currently around 1,150 UK soldiers in the region.

“I have ordered our Armed Forces to prepare for deployment in Europe next week, ensuring that we are able to support NATO allies,” Johnson said.

Officials will discuss details of the offer at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, this week, and ministers will discuss military options on Monday. The head of the armed forces will report to the UK cabinet on the situation in Ukraine the next day.

Russian troops on the Ukrainian border the tension has risenand relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated since the Cold War.

Russia has also sent more troops to the Belarusian border in northern Ukraine as it makes its way. requests for comprehensive security guaranteessuch as the fact that Ukraine has never been allowed to join NATO.

His government, which has been under heavy pressure at home due to some scandals, has been criticized for making a second trip to join NATO members earlier this month, his office said.

Johnson’s foreign and defense minister will also travel to Moscow in the coming days to hold talks with members of Russia in order to improve relations and reduce tensions.

The United Kingdom will also announce on Monday that Russia will tighten its sanctions regime in parliament to focus its strategic and financial interests.

Ukraine has moved further and further west from Moscow He took the Crimean In 2014 and in the east of the country, more than 13,000 people began to break up in a separatist conflict.

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western countries to continue. “alert and firm”In talks with Moscow.