It’s a protracted and tedious cleaning soap opera: Will Germany ship long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine?
For the reason that begin of the warfare, Berlin has been debating the supply of the cruise missiles ‘demanded’ by Kiev.
Whereas former Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected this a number of instances, present head of presidency Friedrich Merz made a degree of elevating Ukrainian hopes – nevertheless it looks as if it was all in useless.
Now, Protection Minister Boris Pistorius went to Kiev and clarified the difficulty with none ambiguity.
NTV reported (translated from the German):
“In accordance with German Protection Minister Boris Pistorius, Germany is just not planning to produce Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. In response to a query on this throughout his go to to Kyiv, the minister replied: ‘Because you requested me a query about whether or not we’re contemplating this, my reply is not any’. Ukraine has lengthy demanded the supply of this weapon with a variety of greater than 500 kilometers, which might be used to assault targets far into Russian territory from Ukraine.”
❗️No Taurus missiles for Ukraine:
Q: “Given the intensification of shelling of all Ukrainian cities, and Kyiv particularly, over the previous week, are you contemplating supplying Taurus missiles to us?”
German Defence Minister Pistorius: “In response to your query about whether or not… https://t.co/6XIC2BA35c pic.twitter.com/hjlAUMqXCE
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 12, 2025
In his shock go to to Ukraine, Pistorius arrived in Kiev capital within the morning and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The protection minister introduced an additional 1.9 billion euros in navy help, relying on parliament approval.
“If the Bundestag decides on this extra sum, Germany will make a complete of round 9 billion euros accessible to Ukraine this yr, Pistorius mentioned.”
“Germany is ready to take over the financing of ‘long-range hearth’ methods produced in Ukraine. And the primary methods must be accessible within the subsequent few months, the minister mentioned. ‘And secondly, we are going to generate income accessible in order that the Ukrainian authorities, the Ukrainian armed forces, can purchase materials from the Ukrainian arms trade, whose capacities can thus be higher utilized’.”
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