German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on May 28 that a potential delivery of Taurus cruise missiles for Ukraine is not being ruled out, but did not provide further details.

The UK and Germany have announced a joint project to develop a new “super-Taurus” long-range missile with a 2,000 km range.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also cited the Taurus missile system’s complexity, saying it requires at least six months of training — something Germany has not yet agreed to begin.

BERLIN, May 29. /TASS/. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has once again said that he doesn’t rule out potential supplies of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine.

But Friedrich Merz, who has served as chancellor since early May 2025, has been more willing to ramp up military aid for Ukraine than his predecessor - and may be set to send Taurus missiles ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that supplying Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine remains "an option" but stressed that Germany "will not become a party to the war". Source: Interfax ...

Germany’s support for Ukraine remains limited and inconsistent, pressuring Kyiv toward inequitable decisions that risk further exacerbating the situation. — Ukrinform.

Merz declined to say whether Germany will supply its advanced Taurus long-range cruise missile to Ukraine – long a request by Kyiv and a step that Berlin has resisted.

Merz has in the past said he favours delivery of Taurus, but his new government has stressed it would no longer detail what arms it is sending to Ukraine, preferring a stance of strategic ambiguity.

It appears that Merz’s own fledging coalition with the Social Democrats – now the junior partners in government – appears to have its own significant disagreement on Taurus.

BERLIN, July 1. /TASS/. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that he discussed with Vladimir Zelensky the issue of training the Ukrainian military to handle Taurus cruise missiles. "We have ...

Merz, speaking last week in Lithuania -- where Germany is building up a tank brigade to help guard NATO's eastern flank -- declared that "there is a threat to us all from Russia".