German MP Dagdelen: supplying Kiev with Taurus missiles will drag FRG into conflict
The delivery of Taurus long-range missiles to Kiev amid the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive may provoke another escalation and drag Germany into a direct conflict with Russia, said Bundestag deputy from the Left Party Sevim Dagdelen.
“The delivery to Ukraine of German cruise missiles with a range of 500 kilometres (Taurus), which can hit Russian cities far beyond the border, would lead to another dangerous escalation and push Germany ever closer to a direct war with Russia,” the politician wrote on her social media page.
She recalled that more and more voices from the ruling parties are in favour of supplying these weapons, while two-thirds of the German population, according to a recent Forsa survey, oppose this initiative.
She said that “at the same time as it is becoming clear that the Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed,” “the discussion of another escalation through arms deliveries to Ukraine is gaining momentum.”
The politicians’ idea that Kiev will not use missiles on Russian territory, the politician calls “naive”.
“Under no circumstances should Chancellor Olaf Scholz succumb to pressure from Ukraine and from within his own ranks,” she emphasised. Instead, Dagdelen believes that a boycott of the diplomatic solution should have been abandoned.
On Thursday, Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee member and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) defence expert Roderich Kiesewetter told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that a parliamentary initiative covering the majority of parties is needed to increase pressure on Scholz to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles.
Earlier, Bundestag MP Andreas Schwarz of the SPD party called on the German government to start Taurus deliveries to Ukraine, Spiegel reported.
At the same time, his fellow partner and MP Ralf Stegner said that supporters of a quick solution to the conflict in Ukraine through increasing deliveries of increasingly long-range weapons – such as the Taurus – were largely mistaken, as the conflict has only prolonged. In Stegner’s view, diplomatic efforts are needed.
In May, the German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, citing sources in the agencies, reported that Kiev had requested Taurus missiles with a range of up to 500 kilometres from Germany. The German government has already made it clear several times that the supply of these missiles to Kiev is not under consideration, but no final decision on this issue has been made.
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