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A large majority of people in Germany support Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision not to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, a new survey shows. In a recent poll conducted by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of dpa, only 28% were in favour of providing the missiles, which have a range of 500 kilometres, for Ukraine’s defence against Russia. Some 58% are against the delivery of the weapon system. More than half of that 58%, a total of 31% of respondents, reject in principle any support for Ukraine with German weapons. Some 14% did not give an opinion. The survey of 2,169 German…