Scholz clearly rejects Taurus delivery for Ukraine. Taurus is a precision weapon that can hit targets 500 kilometers away.

The Kremlin in Moscow, for example, is within this radius from the Russian-Ukrainian border. Behind his skepticism lies the fear that Russian territory could be hit and Germany could be drawn into the war. “What the British and French are doing in terms of target control and support for target control cannot be done in Germany,” Scholz now emphasized.