“The Ukrainian president struggled for months to achieve this result,” assures the German weekly Stern. Sunday, November 17, Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles donated by the United States – something he had until now refused, for fear of crossing a Russian red line and provoking escalation. “The so-called ATACMS missiles have a range of up to 300 kilometers, or deep into Russian territory.”
Across the Rhine, the news caused a reaction. “Now Scholz is under pressure because of the missiles,” comments in particular Bild. The German Social Democratic Chancellor has for months refused to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to the Ukrainians, for fear that the latter would use them on Russian territory and drag their German ally into open war with Moscow. But after the American change of course, “Is the Federal Chancellor’s no on the Taurus question valid?”
The conservative tabloid recalls that, until now, Berlin justified its position by asserting that “the United States does not deliver long-range missiles
