{"id":2043,"date":"2025-04-17T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/intel-reports-will-sober-up-incoming-german-chancellor-on-ukraine-missiles-spd\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:02:11","slug":"intel-reports-will-sober-up-incoming-german-chancellor-on-ukraine-missiles-spd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/intel-reports-will-sober-up-incoming-german-chancellor-on-ukraine-missiles-spd\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel reports will sober up incoming German chancellor on Ukraine missiles \u2013 SPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Friedrich Merz should not supply Taurus missiles to Kiev, the leader of the Social Democrats said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"479\">Classified briefings would sway Germany\u2019s chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz from delivering Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, Matthias Miersch, the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), has said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"994\">Berlin ruled out sending the long-range weapon system, which has a range of 500 kilometers, while the SPD was part of the ruling coalition. The party suffered a historic defeat to Friedrich Merz\u2019s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the February election. The conservatives and Social Democrats are currently in talks to form a new government.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1145\">Speaking to the news channel n-tv on Wednesday, Miersch criticized Merz\u2019s readiness to deliver the Taurus and risk an open confrontation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1147\" data-end=\"1363\"><em>\u201cWe have always been against it,\u201d<\/em> Miersch said. <em>\u201cI assume that Friedrich Merz, once fully informed by [intelligence] agencies, will reassess the issue clearly. We will then make the decision together,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1365\" data-end=\"1574\"><em>\u201cI assume that we do not want to contribute to an escalation or become a party to the war \u2013 the very reason we chose not to deliver the Taurus [to Ukraine]. And I assume it will remain that way,\u201d<\/em> Miersch said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.04\/thumbnail\/67fd318c20302764a9456f04.jpg\" alt=\"Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/615753-medvedev-calls-merz-nazi\/\">Medvedev brands incoming German chancellor a \u2018Nazi\u2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1753\">Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, an SPD member, said earlier that there were <em>\u201cmany good arguments\u201d<\/em> against sending the missiles, and some of them cannot be discussed in public.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"2260\">Speaking to ARD on Sunday, Merz confirmed that he would like to supply the Taurus to Kiev. <em>\u201cYes, that was exactly what I meant \u2013 not that we would intervene in the war ourselves, but that we would be equipping the Ukrainian army with such a weapon.\u201d<\/em> He suggested that Kiev could use the missile to strike the long bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia. Roderich Kiesewetter, the CDU\u2019s defense spokesman, argued that the Taurus would help Ukraine <em>\u201cdestroy Russian supply lines and command bunkers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2262\" data-end=\"2395\">The missile debate is unfolding as US President Donald Trump works to broker a Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire through shuttle diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2397\" data-end=\"2664\">Moscow has warned that no amount of Western arms deliveries would deter its troops but would increase the likelihood of a larger conflict. The Taurus would <em>\u201cnot bring any changes to the battlefield,\u201d<\/em> Russia\u2019s ambassador to Germany, Sergey Nechayev, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2666\" data-end=\"2845\">The deliveries would, however, make Germany directly involved in the conflict, as <em>\u201cUkrainian soldiers \u2026 cannot operate the long-range weapon\u201d<\/em> without Berlin\u2019s help, Nechayev said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Social Democrats have warned incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz against delivering cruise missiles to Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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