SIRIUS /Federal Territory/, March 6. /TASS/. German Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Lambsdorff didn’t deny, when summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, that the recording of the call between German officers, where they discussed an attack on the Crimean Bridge, was authentic, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"When the German ambassador, who was on the receiving end of a demarche, arrived at Smolenskaya Square, he did not deny or question that the tape was authentic," she said at a news conference, referring to the Foreign Ministry, which is located at the square in Moscow.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Lambsdorff on March 4, issued a diplomatic demarche to him and demanded an explanation over the call in which German military officers discussed attacks on Russian territory.

Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster, said on March 1 that on the very day when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed that NATO was not participating and would not participate in the Ukrainian conflict, high-ranking German officers were discussing the possibility of attacking the Crimean Bridge in a way that would not bring consequences for Germany. Simonyan published an audio recording of the discussions, which happened in a call between the officers. In the call, the officers talked about how much destruction Germany’s Taurus long-range missiles could cause to the Crimean Bridge as well as details of how to prepare such an attack.