WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s defense minister on Sunday described Russia’s leak of a conversation by ranking German military officers to be part of Russia’s “information war” against the West, and that the aim was to create discord within Germany.
In the audio recording leaked by Russian state media on Friday, German military officers can be heard discussing support for Ukraine, including the potential use of Taurus missiles.
The audio was leaked on the same day that late opposition politician Alexei Navalny was laid to rest after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the timing was not a coincidence.
Not just WebEx. One of them called in via hotel phone in Singapore… this is such a poor display of operational awareness that I almost hope it’s a honeypot to throw them off.
I’m starting to believe it is. There were so many spicy topics in that whole thing, the more I read, the more it feels very intentional…