Ukraine Asks Germany To Provide Taurus Long-Range Missiles

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pose on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 20.

Ukraine has asked Germany to supply it with Taurus cruise missiles, an air-launched weapon with a range of some 500 kilometers, a spokeswoman for the Defense Ministry in Berlin said on May 27. Germany received the request several days ago, the spokeswoman said, confirming a report by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She declined to provide further details or say how likely it was that Germany would supply the missiles to Ukraine. Britain earlier in May became the first country to publicly provide Kyiv with Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.