Long-range Taurus missile has become a symbol between Paris and Berlin. Like its French cousins Scalp and British Storm Shadow, it could shake the Kerch bridge built by the Kremlin after the annexation of Crimea to connect Russia to the peninsula.
Germany justifies its refusal by asserting that a delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine would require the commitment of Bundeswehr soldiers on Ukrainian soil. Is this why Chancellor Olaf Scholz is refusing it to Volodymyr Zelensky, despite pressure from his opposition and part of his coalition?