Not all soldiers serving in the German brigade being deployed to Lithuania will be volunteers, Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters near Vilnius on Monday.
"We to achieve that everybody who is coming here do this on his on his own decision. But still it might happen [...] that some will not go because they wished to go. But this is not unusual in the German Bundeswehr. So we see about what's going to happen in the next months," he said at the Pabradė training area.
Berlin has committed to deploying a brigade to Lithuania by the end of 2027.
According to Pistorius, staffing levels among German forces currently stationed in Lithuania stand at around 90%. He said all of them are volunteers.
"Once we have fully exploited all available means, we will start looking into alternative options," the German minister said.
