Russian journalist and military expert Igor Korotchenko said that Russia should launch a missile attack on the German town of Schrobenhausen, located in the province of Bavaria.
The small town with a population of 18,000 is best known for its white asparagus harvest. So why would Russia risk a world war precisely because of this town? The answer is very simple, writes focus.de.
Next to Schrobenhausen is the Taurus Systems GmbH plant, which produces Taurus cruise missiles. Korotchenko told Olga Skabeeva's show on state-run Rossiya 1 that supplying such missiles to Ukraine would mean that "Germany is participating in military actions against the Russian Federation."
Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine, experts and journalists on Russian state television have repeatedly threatened Germany and other European countries with preemptive or retaliatory strikes. The strategy is part of the hybrid war of Vladimir Putin's regime.
The supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev has been discussed in Germany for a long time, but no such decision has been made yet. New Chancellor Friedrich Merz is more eager than Olaf Scholz for such supplies, but no final decision has been made.
Ukraine still hopes that Germany will supply it with long-range weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today at a joint press conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, DPA reported, BTA reported.
In response to a question about whether the Ukrainian army still needs the German Taurus cruise missiles, Zelensky said: "Of course we need them, of course we will discuss this issue." Merz said that Germany and Ukraine are striving for joint production of long-range weapons, but refused to answer the question of whether he would allow supplies of Taurus missiles to Kiev - a request that his predecessor Olaf Scholz consistently rejected.
Moscow has warned Berlin not to supply the missiles. The Ukrainian president accused Russia of stalling peace talks and said Moscow did not want to end its three-year invasion. "They will constantly look for reasons not to end the war," Zelensky said at the same press conference in Berlin, criticizing Russia for not agreeing on a venue for the next round of talks, Agence France-Presse noted.