The President of the EU Parliament Roberta Metsola has made an announcement to German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz. She wants him to authorize the rapid delivery of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. Karin Kneissl also joins the debate.
When asked whether EU countries – such as the US and Great Britain – should allow the use of long-range missiles against targets in Russia and whether Germany should also supply the Taurus weapon system, Metsola replied in the newspapers of the Funke- media faction: “Yes, that is also the position of the EU Parliament.”
There is “broad support for this demand. We will see if there will be a corresponding change of course after the federal elections,” said Metsola. Perhaps such a change of course could take place in advance, because “there are different positions within the Berlin coalition on the Taurus delivery.” A direct attack on Olaf Scholz (SPD).
Scholz campaigns with Ukraine
The German Chancellor firmly rejects a Taurus delivery. Even use it to campaign: “I say that only with the SPD will caution and clear support for Ukraine come together on this difficult issue,” he recently explained. Scholz fears that Germany could be directly involved in the war between Russia and Ukraine. The FDP and the Greens, on the other hand, argue for the delivery of the weapon system to Ukraine.
The discussion has flared up again in recent days after US President Joe Biden authorized the use of American ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers. The Taurus has an even greater range of 500 kilometers.
“It is not Ms Metsola’s right to interfere in German domestic politics and demand Taurus missiles that could also hit Moscow,” criticized Fabio De Masi, who sits in the EU Parliament for the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance .
According to the ZDF’s latest political barometer, Germans are much more positive about arms deliveries to Ukraine than before. 55 percent of respondents believe that Biden’s decision to supply Ukraine with the full range of US weapons systems is correct.
Metsola pointed out that the Ukrainian defenders were under time pressure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rightly emphasized that Ukraine cannot wait forever for effective arms aid, just because elections are always coming up in a Western country. It is alarming that Russia is now escalating the war and intensifying its missile attacks, which are already causing many civilian casualties, the politician from the Christian Democratic EPP faction said.
Russia fired a new medium-range missile at Ukraine in Dnipro on Thursday. The launch of the missile obviously also served as a signal of deterrence for the West.
Kneissl enthusiastic about new rocket
Karin Kneissl, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the FPÖ from late 2017 to mid-2019, spoke about this. The Italian-language website fattieavvenimenti.it, which is linked to the online channel Telegram, quoted the former politician, who now lives in Russia, as saying: “There is more in the Russian arsenal than many people think.”
Russia carried out a “combined attack on targets in Ukraine with a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile.” In doing so, Russia responded to “several recent NATO provocations.”
Neither the US nor other countries in the world “currently have air defense systems that can intercept Russia’s new hypersonic missiles,” Kneissl said. On her own Telegram channel, Putin’s friend added: “Until a few years ago I counted on rational Western decision-makers, but unfortunately irrationality is increasing among them. It seems like they don’t understand what is happening and what could happen.”
Source: Krone
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