Human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who advocates for Ukraine on the international stage, Oleksandra Matviichuk, has called on Germany to supply Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles and to take a more decisive stance against Russia.
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Matviichuk noted that it takes Russian missiles less than a minute to reach, for example, a school in Kharkiv.
“The only way to prevent this is to stop these missiles while they are still at a military airfield in Russia. For that, we need Taurus,” she told the media group Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in an interview.
As stated, the human rights defender urged Germany to more thoroughly analyse the mistakes the country had made in its relations with Russia, particularly highlighting cases of bribery of the German elite during the construction of the gas pipeline.
In her view, until 2022, Germany — like the civilised world in general — allowed Moscow to act with impunity for far too long.
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“Russian war crimes in Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia, Mali, Libya, Syria — no one was held accountable,” Matviichuk emphasised, calling on Berlin to act more decisively now by reassessing its overall policy toward Moscow.
“We are living in times that test all of us for genuine leadership, genuine courage, and genuine responsibility,” she stated.
Earlier, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz did not oppose supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine. However, after taking office, he has not made the corresponding decision.
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For Denmark, Nato article 5 would be triggered.
For Germany, it could be legal so Germany would have to fight alone.
Of course, Russia already started the war, but I don’t know the details of international law to decide what is important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_state_clauses
Nope I’m pretty sure NATO article 5 would still work. Delivering weapons to an ally is not the same as attacking the enemy that ally is attacking. Otherwise article 5 would be void for all the countries that have supplied weapons to Ukraine.