Member of Scholz s party calls for NATO to defend Ukraine s skies from its own territory yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the Bundestag Defence Committee, has urged Chancellor Olaf Scholz to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles after the US Senate approved a billion-dollar aid package.
Germany's Bundeswehr is to receive new anti-aircraft gun tanks to replace the Gepard weapon system, after the Bundestag's Defence Committee agreed on the procurement of 19 tanks on Wednesday, dpa has learned from defence sources. The step sees the Bundeswehr responding to the war in Ukraine, where fending off drones is of key importance. Meanwhile the Ukrainian army is using the older German Gepard tanks. The decision-making process took a long time, a fact criticized by the defence policy spoke
Germany's largest opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is stepping up pressure on the federal government to provide Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles. Source: European Pravda with reference to ntv Details: CDU faction leader Friedrich Merz announced in Berlin that the party's parliamentary group wants to propose a resolution to the Bundestag tomorrow afternoon to put the delivery to a vote.
Friedrich Merz, the head of Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has once again called on the government to provide Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles, which could destroy the Russian-built Crimean bridge.