According to Lübecker Nachrichten, if German-manufactured Taurus missiles are used to attack the Kerch Bridge between Russia and the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula in Ukraine, the Fehmarn Sound Bridge, among others, will be targeted for a Russian retaliatory attack.
In a broadcast on Russian state TV aired over the weekend, the host, Dmitri Kiselyov, known as one of Putin’s most prominent propagandists, mentioned the Fehmarn Sound Bridge and the Rügen Bridge as potential targets for a counter-attack with Russian Zircon hypersonic missiles.
However, Sebastian Bruns, a security expert from the University of Kiel, calls the threat unrealistic:
– Although it is a frightening prospect, we must be aware that this is exactly what the Kremlin wants: to create fear, he says to Lübecker Nachrichten.
A direct Russian attack on targets in Germany would trigger Article Five of the NATO treaty and thus a direct war between the entire NATO and Russia. And that scenario is described by Sebastian Bruns as ‘extremely unlikely.’
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has flatly rejected that Germany will supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
