Julian Röpke, military columnist for German newspaper Bild, said Olaf Scholz’s government would have made a mistake if it had agreed to sell Taurus missiles to Britain so that London could supply Kiev with more Storm Shadow material. On your page social network It also reminded us of previous missteps in arms delivery.
He reminded that Germany gave the Marder infantry fighting vehicle to Greece in 2022, thus the lower-level BMP-1 fell into the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). According to him, Berlin began sending Marder directly to Kiev as soon as it realized the mistake.
“We want to give Taurus missiles to Britain in 2024 so that the relatively worse Storm Shadows will be sent to Ukraine,” Roepke wrote.
According to him, in the current situation, Olaf Scholz’s government does not have time until 2025 to correct this mistake.
Before this, Britain had offered to buy Taurus cruise missiles from Germany so that London could supply Ukraine with more Storm Shadow missiles. As the German publication Handelsblatt reported, citing its sources, the idea of u200bu200bthe federal government to export the Taurus to the UK would give the London government the opportunity to supply Ukraine with additional Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
Previously The head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for the transfer to Kiev of long-range missiles for attacks against Russia.