Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, says she had obtained an audio recording of high-ranking officers of the German Bundeswehr discussing "how they will bomb the Crimean bridge."
The recording lasts 40 minutes, Simonyan writes. The German officers also mention colleagues from the United States and Britain, "discussing that these people have been directly involved in the conflict for a long time".
"What does this mean? Isn't it time for Russia to actively remind Germany of what happened last time when Russian bridges were blown up? I would like to see the answer, as is customary for all requests from your media, by noon today," Simonyan wrote on her Telegram channel.
It is necessary to send a request to the Bundestag to investigate the information about the recording of German officers discussing plans to attack the Crimean bridge, said the Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.
Missiles Already Sent???
A Bundeswehr Air Force inspector who took part in the discussion of the strike on the Crimean Bridge is heard saying he (already?) allowed the transfer of 100 Taurus missiles to Kiev in two batches.
The German military discussed the possibility of attacking with these missiles using a Dassault Rafale fighter, as follows from the transcript published by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group;
The representative of the Bundeswehr said that Taurus missiles, when delivered to Ukraine, will be ready for use in eight months;
One of the participants in the conversation doubted whether the strike on the bridge would be effective, and asked the question of how many missiles it would take: “It may not require 10 or even 20 missiles";
The issue of transferring Taurus missiles to Kiev has been discussed in Germany lately. The Bundestag recently adopted a draft resolution on the supply of long-range weapons, but without specifying the type;
At the same time, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has repeatedly stated that he is against such supplies. The German military, in a document published by Simonyan, touches on this topic - one of those present says that "no one knows why the chancellor is blocking these supplies."
Yet apparently, 100 of those missiles have already been shipped, whether the Chancellor approved of it or not!
"If convincing refutations and evidence do not follow, we will have to radically reconsider the true role of Germany in the Ukrainian conflict," Konstantin Kosachev, deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Council, commented on the German officers' negotiations.
"We will have every reason to consider the German leadership a direct accomplice to the crimes of the Kiev Nazis, for whom attacks on civilian targets and civilians are commonplace."
Earlier, the German Defense Ministry refused to comment on reports of the leaked talks: "Please note that as a matter of principle we do not comment on media reports and their contents."
