{"id":630444,"date":"2025-12-13T16:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630444\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:38:24","slug":"germany-sending-troops-to-reinforce-polands-eastern-border-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630444\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany sending troops to reinforce Poland\u2019s eastern border \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is sending soldiers to strengthen Poland&#8217;s eastern border with Belarus and Russia, multiple media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Several dozen German soldiers will join Poland&#8217;s East Shield from April 2026, with the mission initially running until the end of 2027, Deutsche Welle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-news-berlin-sends-soldiers-to-fortify-poland-border\/live-75142358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, citing Berlin\u2019s defense ministry.<\/p>\n<p>German troops will focus on engineering work, according to a ministry spokesperson quoted in the report. The spokesperson described this as building positions, digging trenches, laying barbed wire and constructing anti-tank obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>The East Shield is a \u20ac2.3 billion program  <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/180128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> by Warsaw last year  to bolster security along its eastern border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany is sending soldiers to strengthen Poland&#8217;s eastern border with Belarus and Russia, multiple media reported on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1111,768,28,473,2000,299,7058,12336,1824,12337,770,332,811,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-630444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-defense","15":"tag-european-defense-policy","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-missions","18":"tag-poland","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115713245431376807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}