Germany will not try to persuade Western countries to give Ukraine permission to strike deep into Russian territory with long-range weapons, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, according to a report by Tagesspiegel.
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“Berlin will not persuade other countries to lift restrictions, and we have good reasons for this,” the politician noted.
Germany is not going to give the Armed Forces of Ukraine permission to strike deep into Russian territory with German weapons either, Olaf Scholz said.
Steffen Hebestreit, an official representative for the German government, stated that discussions between the United States and Great Britain on permission for Ukraine to strike Russia with Western long-range missiles were not related to German weapons. Germany still remains opposed to supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine as well, Hebestreit added.
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Olaf Scholz is a German politician who has been the chancellor of Germany since 8 December 2021. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he previously served as Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance.