Defense Committee Chairwoman Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) was asked about the Taurus ring exchange on the ZDF program Maybrit Illner. She answered metaphorically: “Someone let go of a balloon and it burst on the way up” An exchange of rings with Great Britain, which would deliver more of the Storm Shadow type of its own production to Ukraine in return for German Taurus missiles, has been in discussion since the end of January.