Britain, France and the US have supplied Ukraine’s armed forces with powerful longer-range missiles to help fight Russia’s invasion. But the Ukrainian army really wants the German-made Taurus systems. German chancellor Olaf Scholz is refusing, saying his country’s troops would have to be sent to Ukraine to programme the missiles, dragging it further into the conflict with Russia. Berlin is also concerned over escalation if Kyiv strikes targets in Russia or the bridge linking Russia to the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
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