Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 29th April. Foreign Minister of Poland Radoslaw Sikorski on Sunday said tat he is hoping that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will change his mind and provide German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, after the delivery of long-range US missiles to Ukraine, according to media reports.
Sikorski described the delivery of US ATACMS missiles to Ukraine as a “reaction to the Russian escalation” in Ukraine, to which Germany must also respond.
“I hope the Chancellor feels encouraged by the events of the last few days,” said Sikorski in an interview with German newspaper Bild am Sonntag and other Axel Springer media in Warsaw.
Pentagon did not provide any specific details as to whether these long-range US missiles were models with a range of around 300 kilometres or those with a shorter range.
The media reported that they were the longer-range models.
US had sent ATACMS missiles with a shorter range last year.
Scholz has emphatically rejected supplying Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
He fears that Germany could be drawn into the war if the missiles with a range of 500 kilometres are provided.
“The Russians have shut down 70% of Ukraine’s power generation capacity. That is actually a war crime,” Sikorski continued.
Sikorski pointed out at a conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine had taken place in Berlin that it would be better to prevent the destruction of the country in the first place.
He said that in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the aggressor in the Ukraine war, one had to be tough.
“I think we all know now that Putin only reacts to pressure, to the harshest arguments of brute force,” ahe added.
