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"Case of the Armed Forces": Britain denied Scholz's statement for assistance to Ukraine in Storm Shadow

According to the Ministry of Defense, Britain does not interfere with the processes of presented by Ukrainian troops by Storm Shadow missiles, but only supplies weapons for the Armed Forces. In the war with the Russian Federation, Ukraine independently uses the long -range missiles Storm Shadow, carrying them out on target without the UK. This was stated by a representative of the UK Ministry of Defense, reports The Guardian.

"The use of Storm Shadow and targeting processes by Ukraine is a matter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," said the Defense Ministry. He also noted that the United Kingdom, in conjunction with other allies, supplies certain types of weapons to Ukraine to support it in the resistance of illegal and unjustified aggression by Russia. It should be noted that recently German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz has again opposed the supply of Taurus long -range missiles.

He stressed that he did not want Germany "to be drawn into the war. " On February 26, at a meeting with journalists, a chancellor in response to the question whether he was afraid of Germany's involvement in the war in the case of supplies to Ukraine Taurus missiles: "This is a very long -range weapon, and what the British and the French do to go to target and accompany. Germany is impossible.

It is unacceptable that German soldiers, in whatever place and wherever they are, should be related to the goals that this system can affect . . . in particular in Germany, "the chancellor replied. The difference from the United Kingdom and France, Sholtz, explained: "What other countries that have other traditions and other constitutional bodies do is what we cannot do in the same way.