Germany's Merz offers to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missiles to hit Russia

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By STEFANIE DAZIO
Updated 9:08 AM CDT, May 28, 2025

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged Wednesday to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missile systems that would be free of any Western-imposed limitations on their range and target options as the Kyiv government fights to repel Russia’s invasion.

Some of the advanced weapon systems that Kyiv’s Western partners have supplied to Ukraine during the more than three-year war were subject to range and target restrictions. The limits have been a fraught political issue, stemming from fears that if the weapons struck Russia, the Kremlin might retaliate against the country that provided them and suck NATO into Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.

Merz said in Berlin, alongside visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that under an intensified cooperation agreement Germany “will strive to equip the Ukrainian army with all the capabilities that truly enable it to successfully defend the country,” including upgraded domestic missile production.

Germany has been the second-biggest supplier of military aid to Ukraine after the United States.



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[bluestarone]

1. Good news, BUT Merz better be very careful from this day on!

POOTY will have him murdered!! There is no doubt about that!!

[Bayard]

2. No longer fighting with one hand tied behind their back

Good!

That man is really tall......

[Lasher]

3. Russia has been attacking Ukraine with glide bombs.

This should restrict that tactic, as well as others.