{"id":20488,"date":"2025-04-14T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20488\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:41:10","slug":"germanys-friedrich-merz-says-country-open-to-sending-long-range-taurus-missiles-to-ukraine-meduza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20488\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Friedrich Merz says country open to sending long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine \u2014 Meduza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">Germany&#8217;s likely incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Sunday that the country is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/ru\/merc-vyskazalsa-za-postavku-kievu-taurus-pri-soglasii-evropejskih-partnerov\/a-72234166\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open<\/a> to supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, but only with the support of its European partners, according to DW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">\u201cI\u2019ve always said I would do this, but only in coordination with European partners,\u201d Merz said on the political talk show Caren Miosga on April 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">Merz noted that several countries, including some European ones, are already providing Ukraine with cruise missiles. \u201cThe British are doing it, the French are doing it, and the Americans are doing it, in any case,\u201d he said. If European partners agree to supply the Taurus missiles, the future Chancellor emphasized, \u201cGermany must participate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">According to Merz, the long-range missiles could be used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strike transportation routes connecting Russia with the annexed Crimean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"SimpleBlock-module_blockquote__nX-Ab \"><p><strong>Update: <\/strong>In response to Merz\u2019s statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that supplying Ukraine with Taurus missiles would lead to \u201cinevitable escalation\u201d and accused European countries of being \u201cinclined to further provoking the continuation of the war,\u201d Interfax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/russia\/1020763\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sign up for Meduza\u2019s daily newsletter<\/p>\n<p>A digest of Russia\u2019s investigative reports and news analysis. If it matters, we summarize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s likely incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Sunday that the country is open to supplying Ukraine with long-range&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,7888,7883,7886,7875,7868,7880,7870,7881,7887,7876,7864,7871,7865,7873,7874,7866,7869,7867,7885,7879,7872,7884,7882,7878,7877],"class_list":{"0":"post-20488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-7888","12":"tag-7883","13":"tag-7886","14":"tag-7875","15":"tag-7868","16":"tag-7880","17":"tag-7870","18":"tag-7881","19":"tag-7887","20":"tag-7876","21":"tag-7864","22":"tag-7871","23":"tag-7865","24":"tag-7873","25":"tag-7874","26":"tag-7866","27":"tag-7869","28":"tag-7867","29":"tag-7885","30":"tag-7879","31":"tag-7872","32":"tag-7884","33":"tag-7882","34":"tag-7878","35":"tag-7877"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114338967346562811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}