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Germany will continue not to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
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CDU leader Merz is vehemently promoting the delivery of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine in the Bundestag.
But the coalition MPs do not follow him.
Berlin - The Bundestag has rejected the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
A motion from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in which this German weapon system was explicitly mentioned did not receive a majority on Thursday.
Only 182 MPs voted in favor, 480 against, and there were 5 abstentions.
Parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz had previously called on members of the SPD, Greens and FDP to join the CDU/CSU's proposal.
“Ukraine continues to not receive the full amount of material it urgently needs to effectively deter Russia’s war of aggression,” he said.
dpa