UKRAINE-CRISIS/NATO-GERMANY – REUTERS Agency
FRANKFURT, May 26 (Reuters) – Germany will move its Patriot missile defense system, currently stationed in Slovakia, to Lithuania to protect a NATO summit scheduled for July in Vilnius, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Germany has two Patriot units stationed in Slovakia and three in Poland.
“For ground air defense (at the NATO summit), we will move our Patriot units from Slovakia and support elements from Poland to Lithuania,” the Defense Ministry said, adding that this would end the deployment in Slovakia.
A ministry spokesman declined to give details about which elements of the mission in Poland will comprise the deployment.
(Reporting by Sabine Siebold and Christoph Steitz; editing in Spanish by Carlos Serrano)
Source: Ambito
