Metsola is in favor of sending German long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine

MADRID 23 Nov. () –

The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, said this Saturday that she supports the delivery of long-range missiles to Ukraine to confront Russia’s aggression and has believed that Germany should collaborate by sending its Taurus-type long-range systems to the forces. of the country, where a thousand days of conflict have already been exceeded.

Asked whether the countries that provide long-range missiles to Ukraine should consent to their counter-targeting in Russia and whether Germany should hand over its Taurus weapons system to Ukraine, Metsola was adamant: “Yes, that is also Parliament’s position.” European”.

“There is broad support for this demand. We will see if there is a corresponding political change after the elections to the Bundestag (the German Federal Parliament),” he added in an interview for the German media group Funke published this Saturday.

The president of the European Parliament has qualified, however, the existence of “divergent positions within the Berlin coalition regarding the shipment of Taurus” could mean that the change in the German refusal to send these systems to Ukraine occurred “even before “.

The German chancellor, the social democrat Olaf Scholz, has firmly opposed this option, although his coalition partners, the Free Democrats and the Greens, have expressed their approval of the opposite position.

Thus, the deputy spokesman for the German Executive reiterated this Monday his refusal to deliver Taurus-type missiles to kyiv, even if a change in the United States’ criteria authorizing Ukrainian forces to use the delivered weapons is confirmed. by Washington to attack targets in Russian territory.

The debate has been revived in recent days after US President Joe Biden authorized the use of US ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers.

All this amidst the claims of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who has not stopped insisting that it is time for Germany to authorize the use of its weapons in Russian territory, just as the United States has done, especially after the ratification of the new nuclear doctrine his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

These statements come after the Russian Government assured this Friday that it successfully reached the objectives of the medium-range ballistic missile attack used for the first time against Ukraine during the day on Thursday in response to kyiv’s use of long-range weapons. scope delivered by the allies within the framework of the war unleashed in February 2022.

Following the tests carried out with the new Oreshnik ballistic missile over Ukrainian territory, Putin also announced this Friday that the ‘green light’ will be given to its serial production and subsequent distribution among the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

The war in Ukraine broke out more than a thousand days ago and since then the conflict has progressed without interruption, with the front lines practically stagnant, although with clashes also in Russian territory after the Ukrainian incursion on Kursk last August.