Germany To Classify Data On Arms Transfers To Ukraine

This will affect the Taurus as well.

After more than three years of all-out war and "wide transparency," Germany's new government has decided to keep arms deliveries to Ukraine secret. The federal government will significantly reduce the amount of information about arms deliveries in the future, writes Spiegel, citing sources in government circles.

It is reported that such a step is primarily designed "to prevent the aggressor from giving a military advantage in the war against Ukraine." Reducing public discussion of arms deliveries is considered part of "war tactics."

German aid to Ukraine since the early days of the war

On February 27, 2022 - three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine - former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz decided to supply weapons to the attacked country. For about four months, almost no such deliveries were reported.

In June 2022, after public pressure, the government decided to publish a detailed list of all arms deliveries. Until today, the German Federal Government's website lists all arms deliveries with quantities. It states, for example, that Germany has supplied 25 PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery units, 121 Leopard tanks, 1,050 attack drones and 478,000 artillery shells.

The Scholz government has thus sought to demonstrate that Germany is the largest arms supplier to Ukraine after the United States. The list was last updated on May 6, the day the new government was appointed.

What will change from the current moment

The new government is "taking a sharp turn" and re-classifying arms shipments in order to achieve so-called "strategic ambiguity": creating ambiguity to hide its actions from the enemy. In doing so, the secrecy extends to the Taurus. The federal government's change of course also touches on the "painful open question of Ukrainian policy" of Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz.

"During the election campaign, Merz emphasized that he was ready to deliver, but only in coordination with alliance partners who have already transferred such missiles or have them in their possession. In Europe, these are France and the UK," the media outlet writes.

French President Emmanuel Macron recently responded to a journalist's question about the possible delivery of Taurus from Germany that such topics will not be discussed now. "We will be transparent to the Ukrainians, we will meet their needs, but we will talk about it as little as possible," he said.

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