Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said this during a briefing as part of the World Youth Festival.
“When the German ambassador arrived at Smolenskaya Square after receiving a note of protest, he did not deny or question the authenticity of this recording,” TASS quotes her.
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.
Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev said that the leak of the contents of a conversation between the German military about the possibility of an attack on the Crimean bridge with Taurus missiles indicates Berlin’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.