2024-03-04 04:55:01
Russia-Ukraine War: German authorities are investigating the leak by state media in Russia regarding a recorded phone call between senior Russian military officials discussing support for Ukraine.
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In the 38-minute recording, the commander of Germany’s air force and three other officers discuss a theoretical delivery of long-range missiles to Kiev. This is a move that the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Schulzwas reluctant to do, despite pressure from allies, on the grounds that it would endanger Berlin’s direct involvement in the war.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius yesterday described the wiretapping as part of an “information war” waged by the Russian president Vladimir Putin. “This is a hybrid disinformation attack – it’s about division, it’s about undermining our unity,” Pistorius said. “We must not fall for Putin’s tricks,” he said, adding that Germany would respond cautiously “but no less decisively” to the leak.
The spokesman for the German Ministry of Defense said yesterday that the army’s intelligence service will check whether the communication is secure enough for such a sensitive conversation. Audio of the conversation was first released on Friday by Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Russia’s state-controlled broadcaster RT.
“Germany is preparing for war with Russia,” said the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council yesterday. Dmitry Medvedev. “Attempts to present the conversation as a game of rockets and tanks are a malicious lie.”
The massive missile attack on Moscow Russia-Ukraine War (Photo: Reuters)
The debate over aid to Ukraine is rising as a $60 billion US aid package stalls in Congress, causing shortages of weapons and ammunition on the front lines. But Schulz has long rejected calls, including from German politicians, to send long-range missile support to the Ukrainian battlefield.
Marie-Agnes Stark-Zimmermann, the chairwoman of Germany’s parliamentary defense committee, said that Russia leaked the recording, in which officers discuss an attack on territory annexed to Russia, to dissuade Schulz from sending the aid. “Russia wants to prevent the delivery of the missiles to Ukraine at any cost,” said Zimmerman.
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