It remained a mystery for months. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) only let it be known that he would be supplying cruise missiles of the type in the foreseeable future Taurus to Ukraine will not agree. On Sunday evening there was the first indication that the Chancellor would be Taurus-Secret will be revealed: Rolf Mützenich, head of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, told ARD that the Chancellor would explain “very soon” what was stopping him from supplying the long-range weapons to Ukraine. On Monday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the federal government confirmed that Scholz would explain himself “in due course”. The Chancellor did this immediately afterwards, at an event organized by the German Press Agency (dpa) in Berlin. For months, Olaf Scholz has been under pressure to provide Ukraine with an efficient and destructive weapon, including within his own coalition. But the Chancellor hesitated for a long time without giving detailed reasons for his rejection.
War in Ukraine: Chancellor Scholz declares his no to “Taurus” politics
