An intercepted 38-minute conversation , with some German officers discussing among themselves the possible use by Ukraine of the German Taurus guided cruise missiles , their potential impact and the possibility of aiming them at the Kerch bridge, which connects the Russia to Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014.
This is what was reported by the head of the Russia Today channel, Margarita Simonyan , in recent days. With the German Chancellor , who is still against supplying the Taurus to Kiev, fearing an escalation of the conflict, who ended up in a storm and promised a full investigation . While the German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, for his part accused Putin of wanting to "destabilize" Germany.
“ The intercepted conversations of German officers show the West's direct involvement in the conflict in Ukraine ,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov . The transcript of the conversation shows that in the German armed forces «plans to launch attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation are being substantially and specifically discussed», underlined Peskov, referring in particular to the possibility of bombing the Crimean Bridge, which starts from the territory Russian.
«Scholz said that a rapid, comprehensive and effective check will be carried out in this regard . We hope - continued the Kremlin spokesperson - to find out in some way, I mean also through the media, what this control has achieved". « Here we need to find out - said Peskov - whether the Bundeswehr is doing this on its own initiative . Then the question is how controllable the Bundeswehr is and how much Mr. Scholz controls this situation, or whether this is part of the state policy of Germany."
(Unioneonline/vl)
