War in Ukraine: Russia threatens Germany-Taurus use could be “direct participation in fighting” | EUROtoday

According to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, each assault with Taurus marching plane on Russian objectives could be referred to within the battle as a “direct participation” in Germany. “A blow with these rockets against Russian institutions (…), like a direct participation in Germany, is viewed in the fighting acts at the side of the regime in Kiev, with all the consequences that this brings with it,” Foreign Office spokeswoman Maria Sacharova was cited on Thursday by Russian information companies.

Last Sunday, the most likely new Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) promised the supply of the Taurus marching plane to Ukraine in coordination with European companions. He additionally defined that the Ukraine Crimean Bridge may very well be destroyed.

Then Merz was accused by Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow to chorus from escalation within the Ukraine War. The vice chief of the Russian National Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev even known as him a Nazi.

The govt Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) strictly rejects Taurus supply to Ukraine as a result of he fears that this can be utilized to attract Germany into war-for instance if Ukraine ought to hearth objectives deep in Russian hinterland. France and Great Britain have already delivered far -reaching marching missiles to Ukraine.