The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) launches an operation demonstrating its members' freedom of movement as the Danish frigate Niels Jul, escorted by a Swedish ship, leaves Copenhagen for Estonia, where Danish troops will join a British battle group. British Defence Minister Ben Wallace says the operation is "sending a common message to President Putin that we are all together, whether you're in NATO or not, joined to the hip by our values." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES