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- The German chancellor says Europe must proceed to measurement up its thief for Ukraine moreover aft nan support of a important U.S. assistance package.
- Germany and nan UK are committed to sustaining subject assistance for Ukraine.
- Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged European nations pinch Patriot missiles to assistance Ukraine and reaffirmed Germany's promise of a 3rd Patriot battery.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that Europe must proceed to measurement up its thief for Ukraine moreover aft nan support of a large U.S. assistance package, but made clear that he's sticking to his refusal to nonstop Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Kyiv.
Scholz said aft gathering British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak successful Berlin. The 2 countries are Europe's biggest suppliers of subject assistance to Ukraine arsenic it counters Russia's full-scale invasion, and some vowed to support that up "for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes."
Ukraine's origin was boosted this week by nan support in Congress of a $61 cardinal U.S. subject assistance package that had been held up for months. Scholz described it arsenic "an encouraging and basal signal."
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"But I besides want to opportunity intelligibly that nan United States' determination doesn't merchandise america present successful Europe from nan task of further expanding our support for Ukraine truthful that nan state tin take sides itself against nan aggressor," he said.
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hole for a property convention successful Berlin, Germany, connected April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)
Scholz, whose state precocious pledged to proviso a 3rd Patriot rocket artillery to Ukraine, appealed again for different European countries that person nan strategy to analyse whether they tin spare one.
Still, asked whether he will reverse his often-criticized refusal to nonstop Taurus missiles, Scholz listed astatine magnitude nan subject hardware Germany has provided and added: "As acold arsenic nan weapons strategy you mention is concerned, my determination won't change."
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Scholz has based on that Taurus missiles could only beryllium utilized responsibly pinch nan engagement of German soldiers, whether wrong aliases extracurricular Ukraine, and says that is simply a statement he doesn't want to cross.
Sunak, who connected Tuesday pledged caller subject assistance to Ukraine, praised Germany's efforts connected aerial defense successful peculiar and said "every state has sewage different things that it tin bring to nan table."
Ukrainian troops person faced acute shortages of shells and aerial defense systems, allowing Russian forces to separator guardant successful immoderate parts of eastbound Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for greater world assistance, informing that his state will suffer nan warfare without it.
