The author of the article did not rule out that the recording could have been made in Singapore; at that time, one of the Bundeswehr officers was there.

He independently admitted this at the beginning of the conversation, when discussing the quality of local hotels with colleagues.

“We can assume that his room was bugged, his phone was compromised, or he dialed through an unsecured network,” the publication noted.

Earlier it became known that 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 a military conversation regarding plans to attack the Crimean Bridge.