Moscow, June 1 – German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Thursday that Germany has not yet made a decision on Ukraine’s request to acquire long-range Taurus missiles.
Last week, the German magazine Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, citing sources in the departments, reported that Ukraine had ordered German-Swedish cruise missiles with a range of up to 500 km from Germany.
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“We are very conservative about this, I have always been clear about this. And this point of view has not changed,” Pistorius said during a visit to the Federal Armed Forces Personnel Office in Cologne.
According to the Minister of Defense, there is still no decision on Ukraine’s request.
Earlier, a member of the International Affairs Committee of the Bundestag and an expert on defense issues in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Roderich Kiziewitter, said in an interview with the German media group RND that Berlin should abandon the “red lines” and supply Ukraine with these long-range missiles. to 500 km.
Russia has previously sent a memorandum to NATO countries over the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has indicated that any shipment containing weapons to Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that NATO countries were “playing with fire” by supplying arms to Ukraine. The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, noted that the injection of weapons into Ukraine from the West does not contribute to the success of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative impact. Lavrov stated that the United States and NATO are directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, “including not only the supply of weapons, but also the training of personnel … in the UK, Germany, Italy and other countries.”
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