Zakharova: the German Ambassador to the Foreign Ministry did not deny the authenticity of the conversation between German officers. 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.
The German Ministry of Defense confirmed to the ARD television channel that the negotiations of German army officers were bugged. Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev said that the leak of the contents of a recording indicates Berlin’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.