Overview
- Germany's Defence Ministry said late Monday that Boris Pistorius's planned Christmas deployment visit was cancelled for health reasons.
- The ministry designated parliamentary state secretary Dr. Nils Schmid to represent Pistorius so the visit goes ahead as scheduled.
- Schmid will visit German forces at the Constanta base on the Black Sea and the Malbork base on the Baltic, where they help protect allied airspace.
- More than 300 German troops are stationed at the two locations as part of NATO missions on the eastern flank.
- BILD reports Pistorius has a flu‑like infection preventing the roughly 30‑hour trip, a characterization not issued as an official medical statement.