BERLIN, March 5. /TASS/. The Bundeswehr’s internal communications channels were not compromised when a conversation among senior German officers, who were discussing a potential Ukrainian strike on Russia’s Crimean Bridge using German-supplied Taurus missiles, was intercepted, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters.

"Our communications systems are not and were not compromised," Pistorius said. "As you know already, we are using WebEx [platform] for conversations at a certain level of security but not the publicly available WebEx platform, accessible to everyone, but a version certified for official use," he added.

Germany’s top military official specified that the WebEx platform "and it is also important to stress this here, is located at the Bundeswehr’s data center." "Servers are not being used abroad," he stated.

On March 1, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said that on the very day that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave assurances that NATO was not now and would not in the future be directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, Germany’s top brass was in fact mulling how to carry out a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge in a way that would have no repercussions for Berlin by giving it the cover of plausible deniability. Simonyan said she had a corroborating audio recording of the Bundeswehr officers’ conversation in her possession. She later released a transcript of it, which makes it clear that the military officers discussed the Taurus missiles’ capability to hit and destroy the Crimean Bridge and the tactical details involved in preparing such an attack.

On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned German Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Lambsdorff to deliver a formal demarche and demand clarifications over the leaked conversation among the German officers discussing potential attacks on Russian soil.