German Chancellor Olaf Scholz does not want to deliver Taurus missiles to Kiev for fear of the Kremlin’s response, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports.
“In Berlin, they do not rule out that the AFU, being cornered, is even capable of striking Moscow. This is where our strategists recall the often so willingly glossed over fact that the Russians have Iskander missiles with nuclear warheads stationed in Kaliningrad – and that they would reach Berlin much faster than the Taurus would reach Moscow,” FAZ writes.”
For Scholz, the maintenance of the Taurus missiles, which he claims can only be handled by the German military, is not so critical. He wants precisely to maintain control over the targets that Ukrainian formations want to hit with these missiles, the article said.
On 1 March, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, Margarita Simonyan, published in the VKontakte social network a transcript of the text of a conversation between high-ranking Bundeswehr officers about the attack on the Crimean bridge with Taurus missiles dated 19 February 2024.