From AFP:
Britain on Monday announced major joint manoeuvres in Poland in October, part of a string of NATO exercises in the region aimed at reassuring eastern Europe members jittery over a resurgent Russia.
"I can announce today exercise Black Eagle, which will be a significant Polish and UK armoured exercise with over 350 British armoured and other vehicles and some 1,350 British personnel," British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said in Warsaw.
The deployment will be the "largest British contribution to exercises in eastern Europe since 2008," he said at a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Poland's foreign and defence ministers.
Anybody's guess as to what DPR "defense minister" Strelkov's game is at this press conference, aside from trying to ascribe blame for civilian casualties to Ukrainian forces.
Russian stocks and currency continued to slide today for a third straight session, says Reuters:
Moscow's dollar-denominated RTS index slumped 2.5 percent in response, its rouble-traded peer MICEX fell 1.8 percent and the rouble dropped over half a percent against both the dollar and the euro.
White House says Vice President Joseph Biden to meet with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin later today. -Reuters