BERLIN, March 11. /TASS/. Members of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Committee on supervision of intelligence agencies explained the leak of the conversation of high-ranking German officers discussing an attack on the Crimean Bridge by a "Russian operation," according to the Committee’s communique, published after the special meeting.
The meeting that was caused by the leak scandal, among other things, was attended by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
"All signs of phone tapping indicate a Russian hijack and data leak operation," the document reads.
"The Committee expects that the German government will display an initiative and decisiveness regarding the numerous facts that also point in this direction, including for identification of patterns," it says.
On March 1, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said that on the very day that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was giving public 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. According to Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev, the situation around the leak proves Berlin’s deep involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.