{"id":309497,"date":"2025-05-30T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309497"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:43:40","slug":"russia-prepared-to-strike-germany-in-response-to-taurus-attacks-senior-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309497","title":{"rendered":"Russia prepared to strike Germany in response to Taurus attacks \u2013 senior MP"},"content":{"rendered":"

A German Taurus cruise missile<\/p>\n

RT.com \u2013 May 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia could authorize strikes inside Germany if Ukraine receives and attacks it with German Taurus cruise missiles, a senior Russian lawmaker has warned. State Duma Defense Committee chairman Andrey Kartapolov insists that the weapon requires German military assistance to operate.<\/p>\n

Speculation that Germany could supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles, which can potentially reach Moscow, reemerged earlier this week after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Berlin and its partners had allowed Kiev to use Western weapons without any range restrictions.<\/p>\n

When asked by journalists on Wednesday about possible deliveries of the weapon, Merz replied that they are \u201cpossible,\u201d<\/em> adding that Ukrainian troops would require \u201cseveral months of training\u201d<\/em> to be able to launch them.<\/p>\n

Kartapolov told the Life.ru<\/a> outlet on Wednesday that Russia is \u201cready for everything\u201d<\/em> and will respond to the possible shipments of Taurus missiles to Kiev.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to shoot down the Taurus\u2019, and to strike the places from where they would be launched and those who would launch them, and, if necessary, the places from where they would have been delivered,\u201d<\/em> he warned.<\/p>\n

The senior lawmaker, who is a former Russian deputy defense minister and holds the rank of colonel-general, stressed that the long-range missiles that had been earlier supplied to Ukraine by the US, UK and France \u2013 ATACMS, Storm Shadow and SCALP, respectively \u2013 can only be launched by their own specialists.<\/p>\n

This is because \u201cthe Ukrainian military lacks experts capable of operating such equipment. That is, the Ukrainians can press the \u2018start\u2019 button – it is not a problem, but they cannot input the data,\u201d<\/em> which comes from American and Western European satellites, he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Germany transfers these missiles. Then, naturally, there will be German specialists on the ground\u201d<\/em> making sure that they can be launched, Kartapolov said.<\/p>\n

The German Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that Berlin will give another $5.6 billion in military aid to Kiev, most of which will be used to \u201cfinance the production of long-range weapon systems in Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reacted to the development by saying that Berlin\u2019s \u201cdirect involvement in the war is now obvious.\u201d<\/em> According to Lavrov, Germany \u201cis sliding down the same slippery slope it already followed a couple of times in the last century \u2013 down toward its own collapse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia lost 25 million in WWII. Now German willingness to supply long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, which could potentially strike Moscow, has reopened old wounds and revived a deep-rooted animosity toward Germany. Risking a much wider war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":273979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309498,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309497\/revisions\/309498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}