Russia had already threatened Westerners when they had provided kyiv with American missiles atacms and British Storm Shadow.
Russia said Thursday that it would consider any strike on Russian targets with German missiles Taurus as a “Direct participation” From Germany to the conflict in Ukraine, while Berlin is considering providing this weapon to kyiv.
“A strike with these missiles against Russian installations (…) will be considered a direct participation of Germany to hostilities alongside the kyiv regime, with all the consequences that this implies”warned the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, quoted by Russian news agencies.
“Impossible without direct assistance”
According to her, “The real shooting of these cruise missiles is impossible without the direct assistance of the Bundeswehr soldiers”the German army. The Kremlin had already denounced on Monday a risk of«escalade» If Germany were to provide Taurus to Ukraine, the future chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that she was open in case of agreement with Europeans, to which his predecessor Olaf Scholz had always refused.
Russia had already threatened Westerners when they had provided kyiv with American missiles atacms and British Storm Shadow. After kyiv used these weapons against Russian territory, Moscow had responded by pulling against a large Ukrainian military factory a new experimental hypersonic missile, Orechnik. Russia had threatened to use this missile again.
