A leading German politician has urged Berlin to adequately supply Ukraine with armaments material such as Taurus cruise missiles. 

The missiles have a range of more than 500 kilometers (just over 300 miles), which would make it easier for Kyiv to target weapons depots and supply lines on Russian territory.

"Further support such as the delivery of German Taurus rockets is overdue," Christian Social Union (CSU) European politician Manfred Weber told the Funke media group of newspapers.

Foreign policy experts from Germany's Green Party and the neoliberal Free Democratshave joined conservative politicians in pushing for the delivery. 

"A strategy of letting Ukraine fight but not making it so strong that it can win would be cynical," Weber stressed, adding that Western allies must provide Ukraine with "the best possible support."

Weber, whose CSU is the Bavarian sister party to the larger opposition conservative Christian Democrats, is currently the president of the center-right European People's Party (EPP) bloc in the European Parliament.