GERMAN Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visited German soldiers and inspected Patriot air defense units in Poland on Monday (July 3).

Together with three Patriot air defense units, some 300 German soldiers have been based in Zamosc, about 50 km (31 miles) from the Ukrainian border, since February to protect the southern town and its crucial railway link to Ukraine.

In a public statement after the talks on Monday, Pistorius did not address a request by Blaszczak for the extension of the German Patriot deployment until the end of the year.

Poland has been on alert for a possible spillover of the war in neighbouring Ukraine, especially since two people were killed in the region last November by what Warsaw concluded was a stray Ukrainian air defence missile.

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