Taurus can make a fracture after the Armed Forces counter -offensive: Pressure on Scholz is increasing - Newsweek

With these missiles in Ukraine there would be more opportunities for strikes on the facilities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation far beyond the front line. The pressure on Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholtz is increasing, and it is required to give green light on Taurus supply. "The chancellor must ask himself whether he adheres to the stated goal - to do everything possible not to allow Russia to achieve a victorious peace.

I do not understand why we are delaying the supply of these and other weapons," said Joachim Gauk, a former German president. For months, Scholz's colleagues in the Social Democratic Party have called for these missiles to be transferred to Ukraine. "It was time to start supplying the Taurus winged missiles to Ukraine," Sarah Nani, a defense speaker from German "green" said.

The Chairman of the Defense Commission of the Bundestag Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann at the beginning of the New Year stated that "Ukraine needs ammunition, spare parts and Taurus. " In September, she said that only one was blocking these arms. The Prime Minister of the Federal Land Bavaria and the chairman of the Christian Democrats (CDU) believes that Taurus will help Ukraine defend itself from "constant attacks of drones and rockets".

Taurus can give Ukraine an advantage in the Battle of Crimea, says Norwegian expert Fabian Hoffman of Oslo University. Although the British Storm Shadows and the French Scalp are close in characteristics, the improved combat part will expand Ukraine's opportunities for long -range weapons. The German Taurus systems with a range of 500 km are better suited for shocks in objects such as the Crimean bridge, Hoffman says.

Earlier it was reported that the Bundestag did not support the departure of Taurus missiles. The Armed Forces should demonstrate more large -scale successes, deputies believe. Recall that the OP explained that Ukraine can do without Taurus missiles. The adviser to the head of the OP Mikhail Podolyak stated that in this matter it is necessary to politicize less, because similar missiles are already supplying allies, and Germany provides other, no less important assistance.