 German Defense Minister Boris Bostorius visited German soldiers and inspected Patriot Air Defense units in Poland on July 3. Together with three Patriot Air Defense units, some 300 German soldiers have been based in Zamosk, about 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, since February to protect the southern town and its crucial railway link to Ukraine. In a public statement after the talks on Monday, Bostorius did not address a request by Blazak for the extension of the German Patriot deployment until the end of the year. This was an alert for a possible spillover of the war in neighboring Ukraine, especially since two people were killed in the region last November by what Warsaw concluded was a stray Ukrainian air defense missile.