{"id":2743880,"date":"2026-01-14T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2743880\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:12:36","slug":"germany-must-decide-where-patriot-missiles-are-stationed-says-polish-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2743880\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany must decide where Patriot missiles are stationed, says Polish president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-testid=\"EagerImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/archive-images.prod.global.a201836.reutersmedia.net\/2022\/11\/25\/LYNXMPEIAO0FP.JPG\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Explosion kills two in Poland near Ukraine border\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks to the media during his visit to the site of an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, November 17, 2022. REUTERS\/Kacper Pempel<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW (Reuters) &#8211; It is Germany&#8217;s decision where its Patriot air defence units are stationed, the Polish president said on Friday, adding that it would be better for Poland&#8217;s security if they were on Ukrainian territory near the border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From a military point of view, it would be best if they were located in Ukraine to also protect Polish territory, then they would protect both Ukraine and Poland most effectively,&#8221; Andrzej Duda told a news conference in Kaunas, Lithuania. &#8220;But the decision rests with the German side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks to the media during his visit to the site of an explosion in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2743881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784994],"tags":[21347,762709,762710,14869,762699,766105,762732,762736,762681,52896,73796,285050,762737,762700,4626,762734,762783,135664,38674,762723,261522,762735,13321,64725,238274,157383,9831,762689,580283,145821,762733,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2743880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-war","9":"tag-aer","10":"tag-aero","11":"tag-asia","12":"tag-asxpac","13":"tag-balt","14":"tag-ceeu","15":"tag-cisc","16":"tag-cwp","17":"tag-de","18":"tag-def","19":"tag-dip","20":"tag-eeu","21":"tag-emrg","22":"tag-eu","23":"tag-europ","24":"tag-ezc","25":"tag-gen","26":"tag-germany","27":"tag-intag","28":"tag-lt","29":"tag-nasia","30":"tag-nato","31":"tag-64725","32":"tag-pol","33":"tag-ro","34":"tag-ru","35":"tag-secur","36":"tag-seeu","37":"tag-ua","38":"tag-weu","39":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2743881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}