A draft resolution titled "End Russia's war against Ukraine now by further strengthening Ukraine militarily and humanitarianly" received the support of 79 lawmakers, while 510 voted against it and one abstained.
Presenting the initiative, head of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group Robin Wagener said Russia was already preparing new attacks on Ukraine and that Berlin must act more decisively.
He noted that during Russia's latest mass missile attack on Ukraine, none of the 29 ballistic missiles were intercepted because of a shortage of interceptor missiles. The lawmaker said Germany should launch new initiatives to provide Kyiv with additional interceptors.
Wagener also criticized the government's reluctance to act against Russia's shadow fleet and to supply long-range Taurus cruise missiles.
The resolution proposed:
immediately transferring Taurus cruise missiles from Bundeswehr stockpiles to Ukraine to the maximum extent possible;
expanding Ukraine's capabilities to strike command posts, launchers, military airfields, ammunition depots, fuel storage sites and military production facilities deep inside Russia;
increasing production of PAC-2 interceptor missiles in Germany;
strengthening Ukraine's air defenses;
increasing humanitarian and energy assistance;
supporting the protection of Ukraine's energy infrastructure;
taking tougher action against Russia's shadow fleet.
The governing CDU/CSU and SPD parliamentary groups rejected the initiative while reiterating their support for Ukraine.
CDU/CSU lawmaker Knut Abraham said Taurus missiles could be one element of Germany's assistance to Kyiv. However, he said decisions on such deliveries should remain part of the government's broader strategy.
Another CDU/CSU lawmaker, Tobias Winkler, said the Greens' resolution contained "many justified demands" but created a distorted impression of the scale of Germany's support for Ukraine.
SPD lawmaker Johannes Schraps said Ukraine continued to require military, humanitarian, financial and political support, "not only in the short term, but reliably over the long term." He added that support for Ukraine was also included in the draft federal budget for 2027.
Earlier, in an interview with Bild, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said he saw no need to supply Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, arguing that Ukrainian forces were already effectively striking Russian infrastructure.
During the NATO summit in Ankara, the United States, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden signed an agreement to establish a specialized European maintenance center for PAC-3 interceptor missiles used by Patriot air defense systems.
Earlier, European Pravda reported that the defense ministers of the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Denmark and Poland had urged the European Commission to approve as quickly as possible the procurement of U.S.-made air defense missiles for Ukraine.