The Bundestag called the leak of the officers' conversation the result of a “Russian operation” On March 1, 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. On March 2, the German Ministry of Defense confirmed to the ARD television channel that the negotiations of German army officers were bugged.