BERLIN, March 7. /TASS/. Nearly two thirds of Germans, or 61%, object to supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine, while 29% would support this, according to a poll ordered by the ARD television channel.

The share of those supporting missile supplies shrank by seven percentage points compared to August 2023 while the share of those objecting to this increased by nine percentage points.

Sixty-two percent of the 1,288 respondents said they are afraid that Germany may find itself dragged into the conflict in Ukraine. Seventy percent are afraid of Germany being wiretapped by Russian intelligence. Seventy-four percent approve of the increase in defense spending up to two present of GDP.

On March 4, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated his refusal to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine and stressed that such supplies are ruled out because it would require the participation of German troops. Despite this, the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Unions (CDU/CSU) faction will once again put a resolution on Taurus supplies to a parliamentary vote.

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said on March 1 that on the very day that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was giving public assurances that NATO was not now and would not in the future be directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, Germany’s top brass was in fact mulling how to carry out a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge in a way that would have no repercussions for Berlin by giving it the cover of plausible deniability. Simonyan said she had a corroborating audio recording of the Bundeswehr officers’ conversation in her possession. She later released a transcript of it, which makes it clear that the military officers discussed the Taurus missiles’ capability to hit and destroy the Crimean Bridge and the tactical details involved in preparing such an attack.