Germany Starts Deploying Patriot Air Defense Units to Poland

A German Air Force soldier prepares a vehicle before the convoy leaves as the mobile defence surface-to-air missile systems Patriots are transported to Poland from Gnoien, Germany, on Jan. 23, 2023. Annegret Hilse/Reuters

GNOIEN, Germany—Germany on Monday dispatched the first two out of three Patriot air defense units that will be sent to the Polish town of Zamosc close to the Ukrainian border where they will be deployed to prevent stray missile strikes.

Two men were killed by a stray Ukrainian missile that struck the Polish village of Przewodow in the region last November, in an incident that raised fears of the war in Ukraine spilling over the border.