Germany has said it will send a group of soldiers to Poland to help with a project to fortify the country’s eastern border as worries mount about the threat from Russia.<\/p>\n
Poland, a strong supporter of Ukraine in its fight against Moscow, announced plans in May last year to bolster a long stretch of its border that includes Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.<\/p>\n
The main task of the German soldiers in Poland will be “engineering activities,” a spokesman for the defense ministry in Berlin said late Friday.<\/p>\n
This could include “constructing fortifications, digging trenches, laying barbed wire, or erecting tank barriers,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The support provided by German soldiers as part of (the operation) is limited to these engineering activities.”<\/p>\n
The spokesman did not specify the exact number of troops involved, saying only it would be a “mid-range two-digit number”.<\/p>\n
They are expected to participate in the project from the second quarter of 2026 until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n
The spokesman stressed that parliamentary approval was not needed for the deployment as “there is no immediate danger to the soldiers from military conflicts”.<\/p>\n
Except for certain exceptional cases, the German parliament has to approve the deployment of the country’s armed forces overseas.<\/p>\n
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Warsaw has staunchly backed Kyiv and been a transit route for arms being supplied by Ukraine’s Western allies.<\/p>\n
Warsaw has also modernized its army and hiked defense spending.<\/p>\n
Germany is Ukraine’s second-biggest supplier of military aid after the United States and has sent Kyiv a huge quantity of equipment ranging from air defence systems to armored vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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