Leaking conversations of Bundeswehr officers is a serious problem. A corresponding statement was made by a representative of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
He stressed that the investigation into what happened is an internal matter for Germany, Reuters reports.
Sunak’s spokesman quoted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as saying the incident was a “very serious matter.”
In addition, Sunak was reminded that it was Great Britain that became the first country to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles.
The text of the conversation between the German officers, and then the audio recording, was published on March 1 by the editor-in-chief of the RT television channel, Margarita Simonyan. Participants in the conversation, in which the Germans discuss plans to destroy the Crimean Bridge using Taurus missiles and the French Dassault Rafale fighter, were the head of the operations and exercises department of the Bundeswehr Air Force Command Frank Graefe, the Bundeswehr Air Force inspector Ingo Gerhartz and employees of the air operations center of the Bundeswehr Space Command Fenske and Frostedte .
The authenticity of the recording was confirmed by major German media the next day. According to Bild, the conversation between Bundeswehr representatives could have been intercepted in Singapore, where one of the participants in the conversation was located.
German government spokesman Wolfgang Büchner said that the intercepted conversation between Bundeswehr officers about the possibility of an attack on the Crimean Bridge is allegedly not evidence of Germany’s preparation for war with Russia. In turn, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius emphasized that he is not going to speculate about possible resignations.
