Prominent UK Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood criticized the German leader for telling press that British troops were assisting Ukraine with missile “target control” of Russian forces on the front line.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been scolded by a governing Conservative lawmaker in Britain for a “blatant abuse of secret intelligence” after claiming on Monday that British troops were helping the Ukrainian army to launch long-range missiles at Russian forces on the frontline.
Speaking in Berlin, the German leader told reporters that he would not deliver German-made long-range missiles because it would require German troops to assist on the ground, claiming that to follow Britain’s example would see his nation become a “participant in the war,” according to the Daily Mail.
Scholz said the delivery of Taurus weapons systems would bring German troops close to the front lines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“What is being done in terms of target control and accompanying target control by the British and French cannot be done in Germany. Everyone who has dealt with this system knows that,” he said.
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