Michael Fallon: United Kingdom to send troops to Baltic region

“The number of reconnaissance flights along the Russian borders has increased considerably”, Grushko said during a televised linkup with Brussels. “A USA destroyer, which has anti-missile capabilities and also, according to a few sources, is carrying cruise missiles, entered the Black Sea on October 7,” he said.

Allies send more troops to the eastern border to create ‘more persistent presence’.

NATO-Russia relations deteriorated sharply following Crimea’s reunification with Russian Federation and the beginning of an internal conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Mr Fallon told BBC Breakfast: “The Russian intervention in Syria has made a pretty hard situation much more unsafe”.

He added: ‘Russian involvement in Syria is deeply concerning, especially given reports of their actions causing civilian casualties.

Former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said there was now a “real danger” of a clash between the Russians and the U.S. and its coalition partners who are attacking IS in eastern Syria.

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that roughly 100 British troops will be deployed to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

The agreement precludes the permanent deployment of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Eastern and Baltic state nations, a point which has frustrated American ambitions to deploy troops to Poland and Romania in the recent past.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not support military intervention in Syria but has indicated he would give Labour MPs a free vote on the matter.

But western powers believe Russian Federation is targeting other rebel groups, thereby propping up Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“We will continue to build the case for military action in north-east Syria where Isil is headquartered, where its command and control is,” he said.

“They are happy to leave the east of the country to Islamic State”.

‘As the debate mounts, I ask people to remember how they felt when they saw the picture of the dead Syrian Boy.

‘Remember him when things don’t go our way, and disgracefully opportunistic and fickle political opposition grows louder.

With rhetoric hardening on both sides, British diplomats joined a push to restart exercises for commanders of nuclear and conventional forces in response to Russia’s increasingly erratic stance for the first time since the end of the Cold War, when they were ended as a gesture of goodwill.