The Russia - Ukraine Conflict just got highly dangerous. Ukraine Air Force Jets have just launched upwards of twelve (12) British "Storm Shadow" Cruise missiles toward Crimea; possible at the Kerch Strait Bridge. Worse, German Chancellor Friedreich Merz just publicly warned Russia . . . .
"Must stop bombing civilians within 24 hours or (German) Taurus Missiles will be in Ukraine within 1 week."
Firstly, Russia isn't intentionally bombing civilians, so Merz language is a deliberate skew to justify or rationalize the providing of Taurus Missiles to Ukraine within a week.
Second, the Taurus missile __can__ use U.S. military satellites to travel to target, but does not NEED satellites; they carry internal, hyper-accurate maps, made by the German Army, with which the missile can accurately strike a target to within 30 centimeters.
Moreover, those Taurus missiles cannot be programmed or fired by anyone other than regular German Army troops. Ukrainians cannot operate them!
Russia outlined these facts publicly, months ago.
Russia then made clear: Since those missiles must rely on Western Satellites or on maps explicitly created by the German Army, and can only be programmed and fired by German Army troops, if those missiles are found to have struck targets within Russia, then Russia will take that as an "attack by Germany upon Russia."
Elsewhere, Ukraine fired Artillery Shells into Donetsk today, at civilians. There were no military targets anywhere near where these shells struck.
