Taurus maneuvering missiles can withLast delivered to Ukraine only after agreement with European partners," said CDU/CSU block leader and probableThe future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in an interview with the ARD tv channel.
"I have always said that I will only do this in consultation with European partners," he said.
According to Merz, the Taurus transportation should be coordinated and ‘if coordinated, Germany should participate in it’.
Before the parliamentary election, Merz repeatedly criticized Chancellor Olaf Scholz for refusing to deliver Taurus to Kiev. He even threatened to deploy an ultimatum to Russia to halt attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure within 24 hours, otherwise he would hand over missiles to the AFU. However, Merz later said that he did not send or mention any ultimatum.
Last Saturday Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Niechayev warned in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung paper that the transportation of Taurus missiles to Ukraine would lead to an escalation of the conflict. According to the diplomat, Moscow will measure this step as a fresh situation and will make the right decisions.
In March, it turned out that most Germans (64 percent) opposed the transportation of Taurus maneuvering missiles to Ukraine.
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