{"id":29670,"date":"2025-04-18T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29670\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:45:14","slug":"russia-warns-germany-could-join-war-if-it-sends-taurus-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29670\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns Germany could join war if it sends Taurus missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia warned Thursday that Germany could be drawn into the Ukraine conflict if it supplies long-range <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/tags?query=taurus%20missile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taurus cruise missiles <\/a>to Kyiv, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, as a new government prepares to take office in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>If Taurus missiles are used against infrastructure targets in Russia, &#8220;this will be considered direct participation by Germany in hostilities on the side of the Kyiv regime, with all the consequences that this entails for Germany,&#8221; Zakharova asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Friedrich Merz, the conservative politician and all-but-certain next German chancellor, should bear this in mind, Zakharova said, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.<\/p>\n<p>In a television interview, Merz had indicated that he was open to supplying the cruise missiles, which have a range of 500 kilometers, to Ukraine in consultation with European partners.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that destroying the Russian bridge to the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea could benefit Ukraine. Taurus is considered a suitable weapon for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Merz&#8217;s government is set to be sworn in on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz denied Ukraine&#8217;s requests for the Taurus during his term in office.<\/p>\n<p>At her weekly news conference, Zakharova also rejected the ideas put forward by Paris and London to improve Ukraine&#8217;s security in the event of a ceasefire with Russia, including sending a European peacekeeping contingent. She called this an &#8220;insane plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JN9LXf.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    The Daily Sabah Newsletter\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    Keep up to date with what\u2019s happening in Turkey,<br \/>\n                    it\u2019s region and the world.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    SIGN ME UP\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<br \/>\n                    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia warned Thursday that Germany could be drawn into the Ukraine conflict if it supplies long-range Taurus cruise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,16257,17778,7661,17652],"class_list":{"0":"post-29670","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-maria-zakharova","12":"tag-russia-germany-relations","13":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","14":"tag-taurus-missile"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114357857521471798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670","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=29670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}