Germany will send about 50 soldiers to Poland to carry out engineering work — building fortifications, digging trenches, laying barbed wire and erecting anti‑tank barriers — to strengthen a long stretch of Poland’s eastern border with Belarus and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.The force, limited to the mid‑to‑lower two digits and coordinated by the German Defense Ministry, is to deploy from the second quarter of 2026 through the end of 2027 without requiring parliamentary approval, and the move follows Poland’s role as a transit route for Western military aid to Ukraine, for which Germany is the second‑largest supplier.