Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is to be accompanied by a reporter and a cameraman from Deutsche Welle on his trip to Moscow on February 15.
"To avoid any misunderstandings: Deutsche Welle has been invited to the Chancellor's trip to Moscow," government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit tweeted on Saturday evening.
The newspaper Der Tagesspiegel had previously reported that the press and information office of the federal government had initially rejected the German foreign broadcaster, which Russia imposed a broadcasting ban on Thursday.
A spokesman for Deutsche Welle confirmed this on request.
After the rejection, however, you have now received a commitment, he said in the evening.
However, traveling with them also depends on whether the person concerned is granted a visa by Russia.
On his travels in his government plane, the Chancellor is usually accompanied by a group of more than 20 journalists.
However, the demand is always greater than the number of seats on the plane.
"Constructive solution" found
Deutsche Welle, together with other media, was initially rejected for capacity reasons, said a government spokesman for the German Press Agency on request.
In subsequent discussions with the broadcaster, however, a "constructive solution" was found.
Russia has banned Deutsche Welle from broadcasting, closed its correspondent's office in Moscow and revoked journalists' accreditations.
This is Moscow's reaction to a broadcast ban on the German-language program of its state broadcaster RT DE on Thursday.
The Federal Foreign Office condemned the broadcasting ban on Deutsche Welle as a further strain on German-Russian relations.