Spiegel: The German Defense Ministry fears a major leak of internal negotiations. Earlier, the editor-in-chief of RT and MIA Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan, published an audio recording of a conversation between high-ranking Bundeswehr representatives who discussed the attack on the Crimean Bridge with Taurus missiles.

The German Ministry of Defense initiated an investigation into the interception of messages from the German Air Force against the backdrop of information about a recording of military conversation regarding plans to attack Crimean Bridge.