Nato has begun three military exercises - Anaconda-16, Baltops and Iron Wolf 2016 - designed to show it is ready to defend its eastern allies from Russia.
The Anaconda-16 war game in Poland is the largest of its kind since the end of the Cold War.
The 10-day drill involves 14,000 US soldiers, 12,000 Polish ones and up to 1,000 British troops out of a total of 31,000 personnel from 24 nations.
In one event on Tuesday, 1,130 paratroopers will practice landing in Torun, nort...
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