This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev.

“(I consider the situation around the leak. -

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) as further evidence of Berlin’s close involvement in the Ukrainian conflict,” TASS quotes him.

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.