Pressure mounted on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine as lawmakers from his governing coalition voted on Thursday (22 February) for a resolution to deliver “long-range weapon systems” to Ukraine.

While France and Britain have passed on their own long-range SCALP/Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, Chancellor Scholz (SPD, S&D) has mystified allies with his persistent reluctance to deliver equivalent German Taurus missiles.

Long-range weapons to strike behind enemy lines are among the most urgently needed weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend.

  • MrMakabar@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    The decision of the Bundestag is not binding for the government. However some other parts of the decision:

    • officially aknowledging that Germany made a mistake in not using significantly more force when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014
    • Ukraine has to win the war, which is very different language to Russia has to loose
    • using spelling of Ukranian locations in German in offical documents, rather then the still normal Russian spelling(okay not that important)
    • also I read a lot about it could mean Himars missiles instead of Taurus. The passage with the “long range weapons” thanks France and the UK for supplying SCALP, so it is basically as clear as it gets without saying Taurus.