BRUSSELS (dpa-AFX) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj urgently called for more military support for his country in a video link at a summit meeting of EU heads of state and government. “Unfortunately, the use of artillery on the front by our soldiers is shameful for Europe in the sense that Europe can do more,” he said on Thursday, according to the text of the speech published by an EU spokeswoman. “It is important to prove this now.”
Ukraine has long been asking the EU for long-range weapons to destroy Russian attackers’ supply lines far behind the front. Britain and France have already sent their Storm Shadow and Scalp cruise missiles. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) does not want to make the Taurus cruise missiles with a range of 500 kilometers available to the Bundeswehr because he fears that Germany could be drawn into the war.