19.03.2024, Warsaw.
The EU Rapid Reaction Force will be replenished with five thousand soldiers from Poland and Germany, Polish National Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on March 18 at a press conference hosted by TVP Info.
“Starting in July, our battle groups of 2,500 Polish and 2,500 German soldiers will be combat ready for a rapid response,” the minister said.
It is noted that such a decision was taken after talks held in Helenuwa with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
The Polish Defense Minister stressed that the Polish-German Rapid Reaction Force will be fully ready only in 2025.
The decision to create a rapid reaction force for rapid action in an emergency situation was adopted on March 21, 2022. It was stated that the EU should act more decisively and quickly in a crisis. In addition, the defense ministers of the EU countries decided “to create a European Rapid Reaction Force of five thousand military personnel for rapid action in various crisis situations.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
