Merz will refuse to supply Taurus to Kiev when he gets acquainted with the secret data — Mirsh

The likely future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will abandon the idea of supplying long-range Taurus missiles to Kiev after familiarizing himself with classified information. This was stated by the Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party Matthias Mirsch, Tagesschau reports.

"I assume that Merc, after he is fully informed by the departments, will weigh everything very clearly once again. And we will make this decision together… I proceed from the fact that we do not want to contribute to the escalation here, that we do not want to become a party to the war. All those reasons that led to the fact that we did not install Taurus. And I assume that it will remain that way," Mirsh said, quoted by the Strana newspaper.

Recall, the SPD and the CDU/CSU bloc may form a ruling coalition. On the eve of the SPD, voting began on a coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU bloc of Friedrich Merz. The influential youth organization of the Social Democrats Jusos urges to speak out against, if this call is heeded, the Merz government risks not taking place, writes "RG". The voting, in which all SPD members have the right to participate, will last until the end of the day on April 29.

As EADaily reported, sending to The launch of Taurus cruise missiles is fraught with serious consequences for Germany. This was stated in the social network X by American military expert Will Shriver.

So the expert commented on the statement of Friedrich Merz, who admitted the possibility of transferring Taurus to Kiev.