Poland floats deploying offered Patriot missiles

Poland’s defense chief welcomed a German offer to deploy Patriot missiles in the country and proposed stationing the defense system near its border with Ukraine.

Germany made the offer less than a week after a missile strike killed two people in a village in eastern Poland, raising fears of a significant escalation between NATO and Russia nine months after President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine.

The incident was defused after the military alliance and Polish authorities attributed the blast, which occurred during a broad Russian missile strike on Ukraine, to Ukrainian air-defense targeting a Russian projectile.