A three-party governing coalition in Germany has opposed a motion to send Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine.
The motion was rejected by lawmakers from the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP).
The proposal by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) garnered 485 votes against and only 178 in favour.
Members of the Greens and FDP justified their rejection of the proposal, citing an attempt to link it to the general debate on the annual report for the Armed Forces.
The German media also pointed out Chancellor Olaf Scholz's hesitation regarding the proposal to provide Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles.
Russian missiles have struck a town outside Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, killing one person and damaging an educational institution, the regional governor and the military said.Governor Oleh Synehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said there were two strikes on the town of Chuhuyev, southeast of Kharkiv.
A woman employee of a heating and power plant was killed. Another person was injured.
Another Telegram channel overseen by the commander of the Kharkiv military garrison said the attack was carried out using S-300 missiles.
The city is a frequent target of Russian attacks, but has not fallen into Russian hands over the course of Russia's 22-month-old offensive in Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden has hosted congressional leaders at the White House to push for fresh aid to Ukraine, with Republicans insisting they must first get major concessions on immigration policy.
Washington's vital military assistance for Ukraine's fight against Russian offansive has dried up.
Republicans are blocking Democrat Biden's request for a huge national security package including $60 billion for Ukraine and ally Israel, and money that would be spent on reinforcing the troubled US-Mexican border.
Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said that a meeting with President Biden and Democrats in the Senate was "productive."
But Johnson said that Republicans were still not wavering on an insistence that new measures to secure the US border with Mexico were the priority for them.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, emerging from the same meeting, said there was a "large amount of agreement" between the two sides and that Biden had agreed to "move forward" on the border.
