A German general yesterday dismissed as “nonsense” repeated warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that delivering Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine might make it party to the war. “It is obviously nonsense and not correct that military aid – and this discussion has been going on for three years now – would constitute direct participation in the war,” Major-General Christian Freuding, who is in charge of co-ordinating German military aid to Kyiv, told public broadcaster ZDF.