German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said today that Russia is waging an “information war” aimed at causing divisions within Germany.
This is the first reaction of the German Minister of Defense to the disclosure made in Russiaof audio clips from a meeting of high-ranking military officials.
The conversation between the German defense officials was made public on Friday by the head of the Russian state television network RT Margarita Simonyan.
In this wiretap, high-ranking Air Force officers discuss the theoretical possibilities of eventual development of German Taurus cruise missiles in Ukraine.
Scholz has repeatedly ruled out giving Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite repeated requests from Kiev, expressing fears that Germany could be dragged deeper into the war launched in February 2022 by the Kremlin.
The German Ministry of Defense announced later today that it believed that embezzlement an internal conversation between high-ranking Air Force officers.
“According to our assessment, a conversation was intercepted [μεταξύ αξιωματούχων της Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας]. At the moment we cannot say for sure whether changes have been made to the recorded or transcribed version circulating on social media,” a ministry spokesman in Berlin told the German news agency.
The quote also included a diplomatically sensitive reference to the British having “some people on the ground” in Ukraine regarding the deployment of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles in the country.
Source: RES-MPE
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