Berlin Denies Expanding Kyiv’s Strike Range With Western Arms

[anatta]

someone is lying

Berlin Denies Expanding Kyiv’s Strike Range With Western Arms

The comments from Germany’s vice chancellor on Tuesday came one day after the chancellor said there are “no longer any restrictions on the range of weapons that have been delivered to Ukraine.”

www.kyivpost.com

Berlin denied any change to Kyiv’s long-range strike policy on Tuesday, a day after Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared there were no remaining restrictions on Ukraine hitting targets inside Russia.

Merz said a similar decision has been made by the UK, US, and France without specifying when the decision was made, and German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil clarified on Tuesday that the decision was made long ago.

“Regarding the range, I would like to say that there is no new agreement that goes beyond what the previous government has done,” Klingbeil answered a reporter’s question at a press conference in Berlin, according to German outlet NTV.

Former US President Joe Biden lifted the restrictions on US-provided ATACMS missiles in late 2024, allowing Kyiv to strike targets inside Russia along the border.

The decision made under the Biden administration was the last known change to Kyiv’s weapon use policy regarding Western arms.
At present, Germany has not publicly provided any long-range weapons to Ukraine, and Merz said last week that future arms agreements with Kyiv will not be publicized, according to New Voice Ukraine.

 

[Juin]

someone is lying

I think Merz is lying. He wants to operate in the shadows. That may be a new front in the neocon war.

At present, Germany has not publicly provided any long-range weapons to Ukraine, and Merz said last week that future arms agreements with Kyiv will not be publicized, according to New Voice Ukraine.

 

[Tangmo]

Merz' fallback position is the agreement the past fall when the US, France and the UK with Germany agreed to enable Kyiv to use new long range Western weapons to strike targets inside Russia. There's nothing secret about this agreement.

It's also the case Merz and his conservative CDU campaigned successfully on providing the longer range Taurus missile to Ukraine. Merz's real problem is that Germany is the only government that has not provided longer range missiles to Ukraine, most notably the Taurus but not only.

Germany’s Merz under fire over ‘contradictory’ remarks on long-range weapons for Ukraine

A debate over the chancellor’s remarks threatens to overshadow Zelenskyy’s visit to Berlin on Wednesday.

www.politico.eu

The comments were widely interpreted to mean that Merz’s government was ready to make good on his campaign promise to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine in addition to more robust military aid overall.“There are no more range limitations for weapons delivered to Ukraine. Neither from the Brits, nor the French, nor from us. Not from the Americans either,” Merz said. Merz comments referred to “something that has been happening for months, namely, that Ukraine has the right to use the weapons it receives, even beyond its own borders, against military targets on Russian territory.” The U.S., France and the U.K. have all provided long-range missile systems to Ukraine, and last fall moved to allow Kyiv to use those weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Germany, however, has not provided long-range missiles to date, rendering talk of ending range restrictions from Berlin largely academic.


The snag in this is the SPD left of center junior coalition partner to Merz conservative CDU-CSU governing party. The SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the previous coalition opposed the Taurus to Ukraine to include being against any longer range weapons being approved to strike inside Russia. Still neither the SPD Scholz nor Merz CDU government has actually provided longer range missiles to Ukraine. Putin's pups the AfD is 100% against any German aid to Ukraine in any way, shape or form and for any reason. Putin huggers, the AfD are.

Shakespeare's Ghost must have stopped off in Berlin for a while now given this is a Big Ado About Nothing there. Same as this AfD huggers thread topic is a Big Nothing.