Thousands of European troops rehearse postwar Ukraine deployment despite doubts mission will go ahead

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a planned European troop rehearsal linked to a possible Ukraine deployment, and both note that the mission is contingent on peace. The Independent foregrounds the doubts over whether the deployment will happen at all, while BBC News instead emphasizes the official line that any force sent would not take part in offensive operations. BBC News is also the only outlet here to mention that Western officials stress the force would be non-offensive, while The Independent alone says the exercise is set for Poland later this month.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.