According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, he knows nothing about Britain's proposal to exchange missiles to provide the Storm Shadow to AFU.
Pistorius didn't confirm the rumours about Britain's secret proposal regarding Ukraine
I know nothing about this proposal. If there are negotiations about this, it is not in my office, he said.
The MOD chief noted that if such negotiations are held with the office, they will decide whether such an idea can be considered and implemented.
Boris Pistorius reminded once again that official Berlin has not yet definitively rejected the idea of supplying Taurus to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Still, no specific decisions have been made yet.
Some of the details regarding my position regarding the supply of Taurus are secret and not discussed publicly, as it also concerns the security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany and NATO, Boris Pistorius emphasised.
According to the German minister, the articles of certain mass media that it was threats from the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin that caused the non-delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine are just fakes.
I know nothing about Putin's threats. To be honest, they wouldn't scare me too much either, because he's constantly threatening," he added.
Where did the info about secret negotiations between Germany and the UK about Ukraine come from?
The famous German publication Handelsblatt was the first to write about it.
The newspaper's editors claimed that London had offered Berlin to transfer more of its Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the Armed Forces in exchange for Taurus from Germany.
Britain or France could get the Taurus from the German Armed Forces. Instead, Paris and London could transfer more of the cruise missiles they already supply to Ukraine.
According to Spiegel, Berlin is taking this proposal seriously.
