“We also love the Germans very much, we also love Germany very much.
Unfortunately, the time for wise politicians has passed.
The time for wise politicians has passed in many European countries.
I’ll tell you straight: in Germany too,” he said.
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.
German Ambassador to Russia Alexander Lambsdorff, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry because of a leaked conversation between German officers, did not deny the authenticity of the published recording during the meeting.
Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev emphasized that these negotiations confirm Germany’s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.