Delivery of Taurus missiles would make Germany ‘party to conflict’ - lawmaker

"Have you all gone mad?" Sahra Wagenknecht said, addressing her fellow lawmakers at the Bundestag, TASS reports.

"The whole world, except for the German political bubble, knows that Ukraine cannot win this war," she said, recalling that people are dying every day in the conflict zone. Taurus missiles wouldn't have changed that," she said. "The only thing that would have changed is that Germany would be perceived by Russia as a party to the conflict," Wagenknecht opined.

"The only thing you’re putting at stake here with your negligence is the safety and even the lives of millions of Germans, in the worst-case scenario. So please come to your senses before it's too late," she said. The lawmaker recalled the leaked conversation between Bundeswehr (The German Armed Forces - TASS) officials, who "discussed how to strike Russian targets with German missiles." "And no, the scandal is not that they allowed themselves to be wiretapped, the scandal is that it has become normal to have such conversations," she pointed out.

Earlier on Thursday, the majority of Bundestag lawmakers voted down a new resolution by the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union bloc, demanding that Germany send Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has repeatedly rejected the idea of sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine. According to him, the effective use of these missiles requires the involvement of German military personnel, and this is precisely the line he does not want to cross. The bloc, in turn, accused the chancellor of "speaking untruths" and "playing on the fears of the German people.".