Members of the royal family hold honorary ranks within the UK military, however now Prince WIlliam is sending a very real message to Russia on the European continent. Britain’s forces in Estonia are its largest operational deployment in Europe, a country which directly borders Russia. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Members of the royal family hold honorary ranks within the UK military.
00:03However, now Prince William is sending a very real message to Russia on the European continent.
00:09This video was recently captured during his trip to Estonia, and if you're having trouble picking him out of the crowd,
00:14that's because he's in military uniform, just like the rest of them.
00:17Britain's forces in Estonia are its largest operational deployment in Europe, a country which directly borders Russia.
00:24And in a picture worth a thousand words moment, here is the prince in a Challenger 2 tank,
00:29highlighting in no uncertain terms the UK's commitment to defending Europe against Russian incursion.
00:34Prince William is, by royal decree, the colonel-in-chief of the Mercian Regiment, which is stationed there.
00:39However, Britain also has 900 troops in total stationed in Estonia.
00:43They're part of NATO's multinational collective security and defense forces in the region.
00:48This all happens as the war in Ukraine continues.
00:50Despite an agreement of a partial ceasefire, Russia has continued its bombardment of multiple regions.
00:55In eventuality, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said what happened.
00:59Without US security forces on the ground there, Estonia has a vested interest in Ukraine's success,
01:05having formerly been under the control of the Soviet Union.